Perth weather: Homes without power as gale-force winds and rain smashes WA

Sarah StegerThe West Australian
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Camera IconA tree brought down on South Lake Drive, South Lake. Credit: Ian Munro/The West Australian

More than 2000 homes were without power and hundreds of people called for help on Tuesday morning after Perth and the South West were battered by gale force winds.

The biggest outages are affecting properties in Mundaring, Mahogany Creek, Glen Forrest and Parkerville. Western Power crews are attempting to repair the damage to the power network.

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Properties have also lost power across Perth’s northern suburbs as well as in the Perth Hills.

State Emergency Services volunteers received more than 355 calls from people across WA, with water leaking into homes and roof damage among the most common emergencies.

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Camera IconA tree brought down on South Lake Drive, South Lake. Credit: Ian Munro/The West Australian

In Claremont, the ceiling of one property collapsed and a large tree fell onto a home in Leederville.

In Silver Sands, the winds took away the entire roof of another property.

While, in Canning Vale, residents reported their roof had been struck by lightning.

As gale-force winds ripped across Perth and the South West, the region almost broke its monthly rainfall average, recording more than 100mm of rain in just two days.

In two days, Perth reached 60mm of rain. In Wanneroo and South Perth the rain gauge reached 83mm, while in Jarrahdale a whopping 95mm of rain fell.

Camera IconFlooding in Leederville Monday night. Credit: 7NEWS/7NEWS

“That’s heavy rainfall for this time of year”, Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster James Ashley said.

In Cape Naturaliste, wind gusts reached 107km/h at 11pm Monday, while in Mandurah, winds topped 104km/h.

Meanwhile, Rottnest Island was smashed by gale force winds for five hours from 7pm to midnight on Monday, with the strongest gust recorded at 100km/h about 10pm.

Camera IconA tree down over power lines in Camelia Ave in Mount Claremont on Monday night. Credit: 7NEWS/7NEWS

A severe weather warning for damaging winds is still in place for people in the South East Coastal region and parts of Goldfields, Eucla, South Coastal and Great Southern districts, the worst has passed for Perth.

“The worst of it was last night, and it was done by the early hours of this morning, Mr Ashley said.

Showers and strong winds are expected throughout today, however, none as damaging as were seen in the past two days.

The wild weather is due to clear up completely by Wednesday.

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