Perth weather: Storms, rain to hit city as east coast bathes in winter sun

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Perth weather: Storms, rain to hit city as east coast bathes in winter sun

While most of the rest of the country will spend the next few days enjoying winter sun, Perth is getting a drenching.

Rain, strong winds and storms are expected to dominate today and tomorrow before the sun shows itself more on Wednesday.

Up to 20mm of rain is likely to fall on Monday, with heavy showers still over the metropolitan area on Tuesday morning.

It will be a mostly sunny morning on Wednesday — which will also result in the end of relatively warm mornings with the mercury plummeting to 5C — with possible showers in the afternoon continuing into Thursday when up to 10mm could fall.

It will ease a little on Friday before bucketing down again over the weekend.

But while Perth and much of WA’s south-west will get waterlogged, the east coast will be basking in sunshine.

“Perth will get a couple storms and some rain from tonight and into tomorrow, and that same system will move across into the south-east on Thursday,” Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Jonathon How said.

“But on the east coast after last week’s cold snap, we are expecting to see really quite mild and sunny winter days coming up.

“We’re expecting a number of more cooler mornings still for northern and southern Queensland but then we do see conditions warming up across eastern Australia, definitely give people a chance to defrost a bit.”

Minimum and maximum temperatures are set to climb towards the middle of the week, with “very mild winter days” on the way.

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Adelaide is set to hit up to 19C on Wednesday, while Melbourne is tipped to reach 17C on Tuesday.

The temperature in Hobart is set to climb to 17C on Wednesday, while Sydney will have “beautiful conditions” on Wednesday with a top of 23C.

The relief comes ahead of the next cold front, which will sweep across the south-east from WA on Thursday.

“We’re expecting a couple more showers and a bit more snow through alpine resorts on Thursday … it won’t get quite as cold as the past week, though,” Mr How said.

A significant weather record has also been smashed in Queensland’s Palmerville.

The area shivered through its coldest morning in 116 years last Thursday when temperatures dropped to 0.5C. The previous record was 1.7C.

“There has been plenty of frost for places that don’t see much this time of year and we have seen some July records broken,” Mr How said.

“It definitely has been very cold.”

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Monday morning temperatures dropped to -4.4C in Oakey, which was not a record but “definitely noteworthy cold”.

Sky News Weather meteorologist Rob Sharpe said Tasmania’ north-west and South Australia’s south-east were set to get the bulk of wet weather over the next week.

“Wednesday night we’ll start to see a bit of wet weather for South Australia and Tasmania, but Thursday is when that crosses the remaining parts of the southeast,” he said.

“And then a little front for Tasmania on Friday and another one crossing the southeast through the weekend, so a fair bit of frontal activity to come for southeastern Australia, and we’ll see a little bit of wet weather up through the NSW ranges as well.”

Snow is also expected throughout the week, with Mt Buller set to bring in 13cm, while Mt Hotham is expected to get 19cm of snow.

However, Perisher in NSW will experience the most, with 26cm of snow expected this week.

“On Thursday, when the next system comes through it’s going to be windy. Unfortunately, it’ll be rain for the lower slopes and snow for the upper slopes, so the air isn’t quite cold enough for the lower slopes to be seeing that snow, but through the weekend another front will come through, and that one does bring the cold air with it and that looks like bringing some extra handy snow top-ups for the weekend,” Mr Sharpe said.

The weekend brought in between 45cm and 60cm of snow, with Mt Buller, Mt Hotham and Falls Creek experiencing respective snowfalls of 59cm, 88cm and 92cm.

PERTH FORECAST

Monday: Showers, 20C

Tuesday: Showers, 10-17C

Wednesday: Sunny morning, afternoon rain, 5-16C

Thursday: Showers, 9-18

Friday: Partly cloudy, rain, 9-18C

Saturday: Showers, 9-19C

Sunday: Showers, 9-18C

With Clareese Packer(Newswire)

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