WA thunderstorm: Severe weather warning cancelled for Perth, Goldfields, Kimberley & Great Southern
A severe weather warning that was issued for parts of WA due to a thunderstorm moving through has been cancelled.
The Department of Fire and Emergency Services issued the alert for the Perth metropolitan area, the Goldfields and Kimberley on Saturday afternoon.
Perth was expected to be lashed by severe weather and wind gusts almost hitting 100km/h.
Heavy rainfall and damaging winds were also forecasted, with a “potent upper-level trough” moving through the western part of the Midwest-Gascoyne region and the Perth metropolitan area, the Bureau of Meteorology advised.
However, shortly before 7pm, the severe weather warning was cancelled for all areas.
“While thunderstorms remain slow-moving in the north of the state, their intensity has weakened substantially so that heavy rainfall potential is no longer a concern,” DFES said.
WA has experienced major weather chaos in the first few months of 2024 after several heatwaves through February and a freak storm plunging more than 34,000 homes into darkness in January when they lost power across the Perth Hills, Wheatbelt and Goldfields.
Some remained without power for a week as Western Power scrambled to fix transmission lines amid the chaos.
The Goldfields Pipeline, the main water supply to Kalgoorlie, was knocked off its support blocks and burst in five places — prompting the Water Corporation to plead with customers to limit non-essential water use.
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