Strong cold front bringing heavy rain, severe storms

Winds up to 100km/h could hit parts of lower Western Australia between Perth and Albany, as a severe cold front and rain band move across the nation.

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00:00Residents of southern WA need to buckle up for another strong cold front bringing

00:05heavy rain and damaging wind with severe thunderstorms. Now we have issued a

00:10severe weather warning for those heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding

00:14and also damaging winds up to a hundred kilometres per hour about the coastal

00:19fringe and also with thunderstorms. Now winds of that strength have the

00:23potential to bring down both trees and power lines and if we take a look at the

00:27radar data, so this is what's actually happening at the moment, we can see that

00:31there's showers and thunderstorms that are already starting to push into the

00:35southwest near the Bunbury area. Now here's that cold front that is bringing

00:40all of this severe weather and we can see that there's showers and storms

00:44both ahead of the front with a thicker rain band on the front and then much

00:48cooler conditions with showers and storms continuing and if we watch that

00:53play out we can see that the bulk of the rain band will move through the Perth

00:57area later tonight around 8 p.m. and then for tomorrow the front will

01:02continue to move eastwards but start to dry out and weaken with the much colder

01:07air behind it with the potential for small hail and even snow flurries about

01:11the peaks of the Stirling Ranges. Now behind it as well we've got this high

01:15pressure ridge that quickly builds in which means we're going to be

01:19really cold mornings for the next few days after the front moves through. So

01:25how much rainfall are we talking? The heaviest rainfall totals will be about

01:28the far southwest so that's about the Busselton and the Bunbury area with

01:32widespread totals of 30 to 50 millimetres and more isolated totals

01:36that may reach up to around 70. For the Perth area however much more modest

01:41totals between 20 to 30 millimetres reaching up to around 40 millimetres

01:46possible for the hills. So if you or anyone you know lives within these areas

01:51it's really important that they start to date with our latest warnings at the

01:54moment by the Bureau website, app and social media and as always listen to

01:59all advice from your local emergency services. Bye for now.