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Massive storm cripples Western Australia

Hurricane-force winds batter Perth and surrounding areas

Inge Swain by Inge Swain
26-05-2020 14:21
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Image by Broin on Pixabay

Image by Broin on Pixabay

Already the most remote city in the world, Perth, and large parts of Western Australia were left completely detached on Monday after Hurricane-force winds and storms swept through the state.

Wind speeds of more than 130km per hour were registered in some areas leading Danny Mosconi, the Chief Superintendent of the Department of Fire and Emergency Services to tell ABC Radio that his department had received almost 400 calls from people in distress. Most of these calls reportedly came from the Perth metropolitan area.

Aside from the damage caused by the high winds and driving rains, power lines were down in the state leaving around 50000 people without electricity.

Earlier on Sunday, the Western Australia Bureau of Meteorology had posted a warning about the severe weather saying that the severe weather would be caused by a massive low-pressure system. 

An impressive sight on satellite this afternoon, a significant weather system is on the doorstep on western #WA plus early signs of a low pressure system forming well off the Lower West coast. The low will deepen overnight & bring dangerous wind gusts to the #southwest. pic.twitter.com/i8AKV1GvVu

— Bureau of Meteorology, Western Australia (@BOM_WA) May 24, 2020

The bureau kept residents informed via Twitter as the storm unfolded, tracking wind speeds and monitoring the conditions in the area.

?STRONGEST WIND GUSTS RECORDED ?

Gooseberry Hill (Perth) 117km/h
Geraldton Airport 113km/h
North Island (Abrolhos Is) 109km/h
Cape Naturaliste 102km/h
Rottnest Is 102km/h
Carnarvon Airport 98km/h

Latest warning details at https://t.co/xALUT1c1rC Next warning update – 5.00pm

— Bureau of Meteorology, Western Australia (@BOM_WA) May 24, 2020

Severe Weather Warning for DAMAGING, LOCALLY DESTRUCTIVE WINDS, HEAVY RAINFALL and ABNORMALLY HIGH TIDES continues for western parts of #WA. Strongest gust recorded so far: 117 km/h at Gooseberry Hill at 3:33pm. Latest warning: https://t.co/1gnK9iVWmB @dfes_wa pic.twitter.com/UrOvm3bfZA

— Bureau of Meteorology, Western Australia (@BOM_WA) May 24, 2020

Squally conditions over the south as the strong low pressure system moved to the southwest of the State early this morning. The strongest gust recorded by 2am has been 126 km/h at Cape Leeuwin at 12:53 am. Isolated falls 40 to 50 mm in the SW. https://t.co/TLsIPN2Yq9 pic.twitter.com/NTh0UX3Ghr

— Bureau of Meteorology, Western Australia (@BOM_WA) May 24, 2020

PM acknowledges storm and calls for calm 

The storm was also acknowledged on Social Media by the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, who wrote, “Some wild weather has affected large parts of WA, causing widespread damage and large scale power outages. Please listen to the advice of emergency services and stay safe everyone.”

And the advice from the emergency services teams was that, if at all possible, people should stay at home and off the roads. 

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Peter Sewell, the Director of Metropolitan Operations for Main Roads said, “Our advice to the travellers is that if you’re in the South West still, stay there.

“Don’t travel home this afternoon. As we’ve heard, the weather is going to be fairly catastrophic, so the last thing emergency services want to do is attend traffic accidents on the freeway network.”

Other colleagues in the emergency services singled out people who wanted to seize the opportunity of big waves and wind to take to the ocean for one-in-a-lifetime surfing and kite-boarding thrills. “There could be 8-metre waves, strong winds, so definitely no-one should be in the water at the moment,” said Mosconi.

“They should not be there, it’s dangerous coastal conditions.” 

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