Looks like that Rain Dance people in Perth have been doing, may be answered...........
SEVERE STORM WARNING ISSUED BY FESA......
Get ready now for severe weather for Albany to Gingin
Wednesday 28 January 2015 - 2:40 PM
If you live in parts of WA bounded by a line from Windy Harbour to Perth to Gingin to York to Narrogin to Albany, along the south coast to Windy Harbour, you should take action and stay safe with the risk of severe weather.
This includes people in or near the south eastern suburbs of Perth, and Bridgetown.
This is typical weather for this time of year but could damage homes and make travel dangerous.
As at 2.15pm on 28 January 2015 the Bureau of Meteorology advises there is a risk of severe thunderstorsm this afternoon and evening.
At 2pm radar imagery showed potentially severe thunderstorms to the southeast of Perth, extending further south to near Boyup Brook.
We sure hope they are right for once, will help put out the four fires burning around Perth.
I've just stuck the head out the back door, "Yep" looks like they could be right this time.............
K.J.
-- Edited by kiwijims on Wednesday 28th of January 2015 06:16:56 PM
-- Edited by kiwijims on Wednesday 28th of January 2015 06:23:51 PM
-- Edited by kiwijims on Wednesday 28th of January 2015 06:48:07 PM
Well the sky was clear up here at Seabird just before dark so unless something blows up over night it missed us!!
Bruce and Bev said
10:57 AM Jan 29, 2015
and sadly didn't get any liquid magic at Yanchep either...............although don't want the severe storms BOM were predicting for the southern part of WA. Did you get any rain Jim? - not like back in NZ, where when theres dark clouds it means rain lol
Bruce and Bev said
11:50 AM Jan 29, 2015
bit spooky.......about 30 mins after posting my last msg about no rain, we now have thunder in Yanchep and the blue sky is not so blue - but still no sign of rain clouds (fingers crossed), but getting very gusty
banjo said
05:32 PM Jan 29, 2015
Wife was up in Ocen Keys lunchtime and she said it was pouring down ! Now back in Mandurah and hot hot hot ! but storms over the Eastern sky are visible again.
kiwijims said
07:31 PM Jan 29, 2015
Bruce and Bev wrote:
and sadly didn't get any liquid magic at Yanchep either...............although don't want the severe storms BOM were predicting for the southern part of WA. Did you get any rain Jim? - not like back in NZ, where when theres dark clouds it means rain lol
```G'day there Bruce & Bev,
"WOW" What a night,!!!! We've only just had the power restored, been off since around 5.00 am , it's now 4.15 pm
33.8c right now, we've been doing a slow cook all day.
Not a lot of rain to talk about, a short shower is all we got here on South Side, the Daughter lives about 7km away from us, She said they had heavy rain plus hail where they live in Huntingdale,
"Boy" what a thunder and lightning Storm, we had here, it started here around Midnight and was still going strong till lunchtime.
Nothing like N.Z. weather though, we were used to getting 300 mm per hour over there, and talk about black clouds they would hang around for days.
Anyway the record for rain-less days has been broken here, I think it was a run of 62 in total, all we want now is some more rain and a lot less heat would be nice.
K.J.
-- Edited by kiwijims on Thursday 29th of January 2015 07:33:55 PM
sufil said
08:43 PM Jan 29, 2015
We had to go to Perth again today. Foggy and high humidity when we left at 6 am, Clear skies while we were in Whitfords. Across to High Wycombe and it was still hot and dry although we could see lightning on the horizon. Got back thru Midland onto West swan Road and it was still dry,turned up Lord Street and drove straight into a rain cloud!! Bucketed down up to Ellenbrook and drove out of the cloud before we got to Alexander Drive and was fine and no sign from there to Wanneroo that there had even been any rain. Got back to Wanneroo at lunchtime. Did my shopping and got home around 3.30pm. looks like there was a light shower here at some point but the washing was all bone dry so couldn't have been much. Hot and humid and windy here now.
kiwijims said
10:19 PM Jan 29, 2015
G'day Sufil, you must have been lucky to miss the worst of the weather,
I looked in the North this evening, there's a whopping big thunder cloud sitting there,
just waiting for you to hang out some more cloths on your line.
Looks like that Rain Dance people in Perth have been doing, may be answered...........
This is typical weather for this time of year but could damage homes and make travel dangerous.
-- Edited by kiwijims on Wednesday 28th of January 2015 06:16:56 PM
-- Edited by kiwijims on Wednesday 28th of January 2015 06:23:51 PM
-- Edited by kiwijims on Wednesday 28th of January 2015 06:48:07 PM
```G'day there Bruce & Bev,
"WOW" What a night,!!!! We've only just had the power restored, been off since around 5.00 am , it's now 4.15 pm
33.8c right now, we've been doing a slow cook all day.
Not a lot of rain to talk about, a short shower is all we got here on South Side, the Daughter lives about 7km away from us, She said they had heavy rain plus hail where they live in Huntingdale,
"Boy" what a thunder and lightning Storm, we had here, it started here around Midnight and was still going strong till lunchtime.
Nothing like N.Z. weather though, we were used to getting 300 mm per hour over there, and talk about black clouds they would hang around for days.
Anyway the record for rain-less days has been broken here, I think it was a run of 62 in total, all we want now is some more rain and a lot less heat would be nice.
K.J.
-- Edited by kiwijims on Thursday 29th of January 2015 07:33:55 PM
G'day Sufil, you must have been lucky to miss the worst of the weather,
I looked in the North this evening, there's a whopping big thunder cloud sitting there,
just waiting for you to hang out some more cloths on your line.
K.J.