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Australia -- Western Australia Weather Update

MELBOURNE - Oct 9/10 - SNS -- The current forecast for the state of Western Australia was released by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.

Warning summary
Strong Wind Warning Mandurah to SA Border.
Forecast for Saturday  evening
Kimberley and adjacent Pilbara and Interior: Isolated thunderstorms and showers.
Southwest district and adjacent parts: Scattered showers about the southwest
Capes, extending throughout by midnight.
Forecast for Sunday
Southwest Land Division: Showers in the southwest, extending to southwest of a
line Geraldton to Bremer Bay by noon and moving to coastal parts south of Jurien
Bay and over land south of Perth by evening. Isolated thunderstorms and showers
developing northeast of a line Geraldton to Bremer Bay in the morning,
contracting to east of Esperance in the afternoon.
Goldfields and far south of the Gascoyne: Isolated thunderstorms and showers
developing during the morning in the far south of the Gascoyne and southwest of
the Goldfields, moving to central and eastern Goldfields by the afternoon.
Throughout the Kimberley, Interior, and Eucla and adjacent Pilbara and Gascoyne:
Isolated thunderstorms and showers in the Kimberley, developing in western parts
of the remainder in the afternoon, extending east in the evening.
Perth Forecast
Warning summary
Nil.
Forecast for Saturday  evening
Becoming cloudy. Moderate W/NW winds.
Precis:      Becoming cloudy.
Forecast for Sunday
Few showers, easing in the evening. W/SW winds, fresh at times during the day,
easing and tending S/SW in the evening.
Precis:      Few showers.
City:        Min 14        Max 20
Mandurah:    Min 15         Max 19
UV Alert:    8:40 am to 3:30 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 9 [Very High]
Fire Danger: Coastal Plain: NOT RATED
Hills: NOT RATED
Monday       Partly cloudy.                         Min 5      Max 20
Tuesday      Sunny.                                 Min 8      Max 24
Wednesday    Partly cloudy.                         Min 9      Max 25
Thursday     Sunny.                                 Min 11     Max 26
Friday       Sunny.                                 Min 12     Max 28
Saturday     Sunny.                                 Min 13     Max 29
The next routine forecast will be issued at 4:45 am WST Sunday.

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