Severe Weather Warning for destructive winds for people in the Goldfields, Lower West, South West, South Coastal, South East Coastal, Great Southern and Central Wheat Belt forecast districts
Issued at 3:22 am WST on Monday 7 July 2014.
For people in parts of WA southwest of a line from Wongan Hills to MT Jackson to Israelite Bay for MONDAY. This includes people in, near or between the following towns: York, Southern Cross, Esperance, Narrogin, Katanning, Albany, Bridgetown, Margaret River, Busselton, Bunbury, Mandurah and the Perth metropolitan area.
Weather Situation
A strong cold front will move over the southwest of the State during MONDAY.
The weather system on MONDAY is likely to cause WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS to 100 kilometres per hour that could result in DAMAGE TO HOMES AND PROPERTY. In isolated areas DANGEROUS GUSTS in excess of 125 kilometres per hour could cause SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OR DESTRUCTION TO HOMES AND PROPERTY. DAMAGING WINDS are likely to develop southwest of a line Bunbury to Walpole between 6am and 8am Monday morning and extend to southwest of a line Perth metropolitan to Albany after 10am Monday morning, then extend to the remainder of the warning area during Monday afternoon. Thunderstorms, hail and local flooding are also possible.
This front on MONDAY is expected to be windier than a typical front and is likely to produce the kind of weather that is only seen once or twice a year.
K.J.
Jenzarl said
12:30 PM Jul 7, 2014
Geez Jim you are hard to please. A few months ago you were complaining that you were desperate for rain and now you are complaining about the rain and storms. All jokes aside my sister lives at Morawa so yes I keep a fairly close eye on the weather W.A. weather. You have been getting extremes for a while now. I was over just before Christmas in 2011 and they got some pretty hot dry weather then.
The Nomads up North would be thinking twice about heading south too soon
Happywanderer said
03:37 PM Jul 7, 2014
Will be staying further up north as long as we can. If it doesn't warm up and dry up down there soon we might have to think about retracing out steps and leaving South to a better time.
At Pt Hedland at the moment, getting a few things done.
kiwijims said
03:51 PM Jul 7, 2014
"Yer" I guess it would seem that I am hard to please. Jenzarl but, I think anyone who cops too much of any one thing. has got a right to complain about it, a few months ago we had endured over four months of dry, hot weather, which was enough to boil ones brains out,
now we have storm after store coming into the Coast " YE GODS" Hewie, enough is enough !!!
I don't blame any Nomad presently on the highway, staying up where it's nice and warm ( and dry ) what fool in their right minds would want to come South at the present time,
By the way, Morawa will be the place to be, in a few month's time when the Wild Flowers come out, after all this rain, there should be a fantastic show this year.
K.J.
gwb said
04:13 PM Jul 7, 2014
We have a son and his family at Pinjarra so we too keep an eye on the weather. We are currently in Darwin and will be starting the trek down the west coast in a week or so. Hopefully all the nasty stuff will be gone by the time we get there at the start of September for his 40th.
Geoff and Bev
Bryan said
05:41 PM Jul 7, 2014
I thought I was going to be washed away this afternoon but the drains coped.........just.
hako said
06:24 PM Jul 7, 2014
We will stay in Carnarvon till the weekend and then a few days at Denham. Maybe if the weather is better we'll venture south to Kalbari.
We thought accomodation would be hard to get but we're having no probs with powered sites. Prices are....high.
sufil said
06:24 PM Jul 7, 2014
Blowing a gale with heavy rain and patches of hail up here near Seabird.
sufil said
06:25 PM Jul 7, 2014
ooops double post
-- Edited by sufil on Monday 7th of July 2014 06:26:00 PM
pugs said
08:00 PM Jul 7, 2014
It came belting through Toodyay this arvo,havent heard of any damage.Bunbury got some damage.Batten down the hatches. Pugs
Vic41 said
11:31 PM Jul 7, 2014
hako wrote:
We will stay in Carnarvon till the weekend and then a few days at Denham. Maybe if the weather is better we'll venture south to Kalbari. We thought accomodation would be hard to get but we're having no probs with powered sites. Prices are....high.
Have a think about a side trip to Gascoyne Junction Denis, goes past Rocky Pool too which is worth a look. Bitumen all the way out and back and if you don't mind a bit of dust and a river crossing you could drive to Mullewa via Murchison Roadhouse (good caravan park and cheap fuel).
GJ being on a parallel with Carnarvon has good weather, also cheap caravan park, see photo's and prices on this link;
Severe Weather Warning
for destructive winds
for people in the Goldfields, Lower West, South West, South Coastal, South East Coastal, Great Southern and Central Wheat Belt forecast districts
Issued at 3:22 am WST on Monday 7 July 2014.
For people in parts of WA southwest of a line from Wongan Hills to MT Jackson to Israelite Bay for MONDAY. This includes people in, near or between the following towns: York, Southern Cross, Esperance, Narrogin, Katanning, Albany, Bridgetown, Margaret River, Busselton, Bunbury, Mandurah and the Perth metropolitan area.
Weather Situation
A strong cold front will move over the southwest of the State during MONDAY.
The weather system on MONDAY is likely to cause WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS to 100 kilometres per hour that could result in DAMAGE TO HOMES AND PROPERTY. In isolated areas DANGEROUS GUSTS in excess of 125 kilometres per hour could cause SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OR DESTRUCTION TO HOMES AND PROPERTY. DAMAGING WINDS are likely to develop southwest of a line Bunbury to Walpole between 6am and 8am Monday morning and extend to southwest of a line Perth metropolitan to Albany after 10am Monday morning, then extend to the remainder of the warning area during Monday afternoon. Thunderstorms, hail and local flooding are also possible.
This front on MONDAY is expected to be windier than a typical front and is likely to produce the kind of weather that is only seen once or twice a year.
K.J.
Geez Jim you are hard to please. A few months ago you were complaining that you were desperate for rain and now you are complaining about the rain and storms. All jokes aside my sister lives at Morawa so yes I keep a fairly close eye on the weather W.A. weather. You have been getting extremes for a while now. I was over just before Christmas in 2011 and they got some pretty hot dry weather then.
The Nomads up North would be thinking twice about heading south too soon
At Pt Hedland at the moment, getting a few things done.
"Yer" I guess it would seem that I am hard to please. Jenzarl but, I think anyone who cops too much of any one thing. has got a right to complain about it, a few months ago we had endured over four months of dry, hot weather, which was enough to boil ones brains out,
now we have storm after store coming into the Coast " YE GODS" Hewie, enough is enough !!!
I don't blame any Nomad presently on the highway, staying up where it's nice and warm ( and dry ) what fool in their right minds would want to come South at the present time,
By the way, Morawa will be the place to be, in a few month's time when the Wild Flowers come out, after all this rain, there should be a fantastic show this year.
K.J.
Geoff and Bev
We thought accomodation would be hard to get but we're having no probs with powered sites. Prices are....high.
ooops double post
-- Edited by sufil on Monday 7th of July 2014 06:26:00 PM
Have a think about a side trip to Gascoyne Junction Denis, goes past Rocky Pool too which is worth a look. Bitumen all the way out and back and if you don't mind a bit of dust and a river crossing you could drive to Mullewa via Murchison Roadhouse (good caravan park and cheap fuel).
GJ being on a parallel with Carnarvon has good weather, also cheap caravan park, see photo's and prices on this link;
http://thegreynomads.activeboard.com/t57615816/new-gascoyne-junction-caravan-park-roadhouse-wa-171-kms-east/
Ps: I was driving through Perth City today when the storm struck, boy did it come down heavy, along with the wind gusts....