00:02Hello, it is Sunday the 6th of September and this is your weather update for WA.
00:06There is a cutoff low system delivering between 25 and 75 mils down in the south central regions,
00:12which is accompanied by some lightning and some thunderstorms, which is increasing the
00:16fire risk in much of central WA throughout the start of the week. Let's start out by looking
00:20at these weather warnings. So across the central districts here on Sunday and on Monday, there is
00:26a high fire risk warning. That's because that cutoff low is delivering lightning strikes on
00:32the ground there as well. It also saw this much of sort of the coastline of WA have a severe
00:38wind
00:38warning. So that's in place Sunday and Monday, and then it should ease as the week goes on.
00:44Okay, that's sort of like the weather warnings for this week. Let's start having a look day by day at
00:48the breakdown. This is the cutoff low system that's delivering, you can see some real strong
00:53localized falls with those sort of stormy systems. But in terms of the rest of the state,
01:00it's largely dominated by high pressure for most of the week. Now up in the sort of north at the
01:06moment, it's just sort of this edge here. We've got slightly cooler conditions than normal because of
01:11the cloud cover associated with that cutoff low, but that returns normal to the end of the week.
01:15So this is, yeah, the rain system here. Everywhere else is pretty much calm and settled. Monday,
01:20you can see it really intensifies across this almost malleable region. It sticks around for
01:26Tuesday, but as you see, the rest of the state, this is the high pressure. It's actually very strong
01:30high pressure, 1040, and you've got ridging across WA for most of the week. It starts to move over on
01:36Wednesday, and then Thursday, we're still getting the remnants. Now these, it's actually like a sort of a
01:41low pressure trough by this point. The cutoff low no longer exists, but this low pressure up into the
01:47north part of the state for Thursday and Friday is seeing the chance of thunder and lightning strikes
01:53up into the sort of northern areas of WA. So there might be a high fire danger associated with that
01:59towards the end of the week as well. As for the rest of the state, again, it starts to calm
02:03under the
02:03influence of high pressure. This actually back here on Friday, this is a front moving through. You can see
02:08there's not a lot of rain associated with that front, but there is a bit of wind there.
02:13Here we go for Saturday. This is, you'll probably see like maybe a trough line that's moved across,
02:17but for most of the state, it's really nothing. Maybe some light showers down in the southeast.
02:21And then by Sunday, very similar story. Okay, having a look at the wind field here, this is the Saturday
02:26wind field, just to show you this sort of front that's moving through. In the coast, we're getting
02:3040 to 63 kilometer hour gusts. The rest of the week isn't quite as strong or gusty there.
02:35Okay, this is today's weather, not weather, this is today's temperature fields. You can see this is
02:41sort of the cutoff lows here, and then these cooler conditions than we typically see around this time
02:46of year in the sort of central coastal area. But if I move ahead to say Tuesday, if she wants
02:54to
02:54cooperate with me. No, maybe we'll get to these slightly warmer temperatures again. Okay.
03:03Okay, having a look at Mandura, which is just south of Perth this week for our little delve in,
03:08we can see that there's not really much rain on the way. Some showers Friday and Saturday as that
03:12front moves through. Sunday as well, but low totals, maybe six mils on the Saturday. As for
03:18temperatures, we're in the low 20s for most of the week, and then the low teens for our lows for
03:22most of the week as well. Moving on to, let's have a little bit of a delve in onto Saturday.
03:27We can see that the wind gusts aren't particularly strong, but there is a chance of fog there as
03:32well. And it's sort of just this cumulative spittle that we're getting. Let's have a look
03:36at this on the pro version for Saturday. Cool. All right. So it's really the Australian model
03:41that's throwing a lot of that rain. The other models are showing sort of, yeah, loose showers,
03:49but it's the Australian model that's delivering 12 mils while the others aren't really delivering
03:55anything. So I think that front largely on Saturday is going to be relatively weak in terms of the
04:00weather that it brings along with it. All right. So that's it for WA. So reminder, we have this
04:04cutoff low moving through the sort of central and south eastern parts of the state for much of the
04:10start of the week. It's bringing heavy rain, thunder and lightning, which is increasing your fire risk
04:15there. That should ease towards the end of the week when the next weather system moves through,
04:20which is a relatively weak front that's moving across the south of the state up in the north
04:25Thursday and Friday. There's your chance of thunderstorms there. Okay. Stay safe. Have a great
04:29week and we'll see you next time.
