A Great Southern man who found himself swept up into the eye of a freak tornado and thrown 30m into a fence on a Frankland River farm on Tuesday said he is grateful he’s “still standing up”.
Melissa Sheil
Water ingress, roof damage and flooding were just some of the issues reported.
Jessica Evensen
The Bureau of Meteorology issued the warning at 11.10am on Tuesday.
Taylor Renouf
The severe storm was detected near Joondalup and Wanneroo.
West Aussies are being told to prepare for damage to trees, power outages and flash flooding.
Residents are being urged to prepare their homes to reduce the likelihood of storm related damage.
Oliver Lane
While parts of Australia battle floods, farmers in the nation's south are selling off stock, abandoning crops and pleading for help as drought deepens.
Stephanie Gardiner
Damaging wind gusts of around 100km/h are possible.
Senior Meteorologist Angus Hines said that despite the early forecast, conditions could still change.
Jonathon Nolan
Still recovering from the damage caused by its wettest day on record, Albany was hit with more heavy rain on Monday with the city subjected to further flooding and damage.
Georgia Campion and Jacki Elezovich
Heavy rainfall and flooding is also possible along coastal areas.
Lisa Thomas
The Kimberley region is bracing itself for a wet and windy weekend as a tropical cyclone develops off the coast of northern WA.
Farmers and rural communities who are struggling to survive a worsening drought are getting a multi-million dollar boost to help get them through the crisis.
Abe Maddison
Flash flooding looks to have sunk Rio Tinto’s quarterly iron ore shipments to the lowest level since 2019 and dampened hopes of WA’s most prolific miner reaching its annual production target.
Adrian Rauso
West Australians have been warned to batten down as destructive winds of up to 100km/h and severe weather hit big parts of the State.
Perth’s unusual heatwave has left the city with its hottest March in 40 years after recording six days of sizzling temperatures above 35C.
Severe storms have trapped residents in their homes on the Texas-Mexico border, forcing drivers to abandon their vehicles on flooded roads
Valerie Gonzalez and Juan A Lozano
Emergency WA has told people in the area to start preparing now for the dangerous weather.
A tropical low 350km off the coast of the Kimberley is tipped to strengthen into a category-one cyclone as it crosses the coastline on Saturday.
Emergency WA issued an alert, saying people in the advice zone ‘need to act now and stay safe with severe weather forecast’.
A one-in-50-year downpour has forced uranium miner Paladin Energy to pull full-year guidance as it struggles to restart mining and processing activity at its Langer Heinrich project in Africa.
Daniel Newell
Residents were left scrambling on Thursday after a severe thunderstorm ripped through the metro area.
More than 400 homes are still without power on Friday morning after a severe thunderstorm hit Perth yesterday.
Emergency services were also responding to at least 75 hazards.
