WA and Perth weather forecast: ‘Once-in-every-five-years storm’ slams State, thousands without power

Heavy rainfall throughout Saturday night and into Sunday morning has caused high tides across Perth.

From the iconic Blue Boat Shed almost underwater to rivers and lakes breaking their banks, people out and about today are capturing areas that have flooded.

You might need your gum boots if heading to Henry Sutton Grove in Halls Head, Mandurah with the park slowly turning into a lake.

Andre Oi also captured a rogue trampoline had been blown from a house into the park.

Meanwhile, staff at The Oarhouse Cafe in Bayswater has reassured its customers that they were still open throughout the morning despite the weather.

Staff said that despite some flooding they are “still open for swim up orders and window service only”.

More than 120 calls for help have been made to the State Emergency Service since 5pm as wild weather batters WA.

The majority of calls have been made from the Perth metropolitan area with calls including trees falling onto houses.

While the calls have come from across Perth, the city’s south has seemingly copped the worst of it so far with suburbs like Hamilton Hill, Melville and Bull Creek registering a high number of calls.

A Mandurah resident has woken up to discover a neighbour’s shed floating in his pool after the wild weather last night.

Matt Atley took to the suburb’s community Facebook page asking if “anyone in Mandurah is missing a shed from last night’s storm?”

“We found it,” he added.

The shed has been damaged in the process and somehow ended up in the middle of his swimming pool.

Riverside Drive in the Perth CBD has been subjected to some minor flooding this morning.

Kwinana Freeway northbound at the Mill Point Road on ramp is also flooded.

Main Roads have encouraged drivers to be aware and drive slowly.

Main Roads has urged motorists heading out into the wintery weather today to have “your wits about you”.

Drivers should take extra care on the roads in Perth as the storm closes in by ensuring headlights are on.

A severe weather warning is still in place for a large stretch of WA, with the Bureau of Meteorology saying destructive winds are set to get stronger as the day goes on.

“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,” the warning states.

“Locally destructive winds gusts in excess of 125 km/h are likely over an area southwest of a line from Lancelin to Albany, including Perth, during Sunday afternoon and evening.

“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 3 to 5 years in the southwest of WA.”

More than 30 calls have already been made to The State Emergency Service for help across the metropolitan area, South West and Great Southern regions.

There are more than 10,000 homes across the State without power, with the worst outages impacting Quedjinup, Dunsborough, Quindalup, Anniebrook, Naturaliste, Langford, Ferndale and Lynwood.

Western Power is estimating most homes will have power restored by 3pm at the latest.

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West Aussies have woken to chaos as one the State’s strongest storms in years sweeps across WA.

Parts of the WA coast have been drenched in rain overnight, but the worst of the wild and windy weather bearing down on Perth and a huge chunk of WA’s most populated regions is still to hit, experts say.