Thousands of WA homes are without power across the state as wild weather continues to batter the South West and metropolitan areas, with experts warning the strong winds will continue into Monday.
The Department of Fire and Emergency Services has reported that around 50 calls have been made to the State Emergency Service with reports including water ingress, flooding, roof damage, structural damage and fallen trees.
Western Power has reported that more than 2000 homes in the Langford, Lynwood and Ferndale are without power, while crews have been dispatched to assess an outage impacting 2134 customers in Hamilton Hill, Coolbellup and Samson.
A tree has fallen on a power line which has caused an outage to more than 1000 customers in Dianella, while more than 5000 homes are without power in the state’s South West region.
Western Power expects power in the impacted areas to be back up by 3pm on Sunday.
The Bureau of Meteorology has advised that a deepening and intense low-pressure system will approach the southwest today and will bring a significant burst of damaging to locally destructive winds to western and southern parts of the South West Land Division.
By Monday the system is expected to move to the east with the risk of damaging winds shifting towards southeastern Western Australia.
“The winds associated with the low-pressure system during Sunday afternoon, evening and Monday morning are expected to produce dangerous weather that is only seen once every three to five years in the southwest of Western Australia,” a BoM spokesperson said.
However, the risk of heavy rainfall has now eased.
BoM has also warned that the deepening low-pressure system offshore southwest of Perth is bringing gale force westerly winds, elevated sea levels and large and powerful waves.
“Tides are likely to rise well above the normal high tide mark during Sunday morning,” the spokesperson said.
“Tides are also expected to rise well above the normal high tide mark for coastal areas between Jurien Bay and Israelite Bay during the Monday morning high tide.
“Beach conditions in these areas could be dangerous and people should stay well away from the surf and surf exposed areas.”
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