Perth weather: Rain & thunderstorms forecast for city, as damaging winds & high temperatures cause fire danger

Western Australia is set to be hit with extreme weather over the coming days, with the Bureau of Meteorology warning much of the State can expect high fire danger conditions.

High temperatures and damaging winds are set to elevate the fire danger on Wednesday and meteorologist Christie Johnson said some parts of WA could even reach extreme risk levels.

“We do have showers and thunderstorms developing across southern and south-western parts due to this approaching cold front and also developing low-pressure system and trough,” Johnson said.

“Now around these systems, we do see a lot of wind, particularly inland and also near the coast so that does give us the risk of damaging winds through inland parts and also in association with any thunderstorms in the south.

“Inland we’re seeing hot to very hot conditions. That combined with those damaging winds, is giving us high fire danger across much of the state and extreme fire danger through parts of the eastern Gascoyne, western interior and northern Goldfields.”

Perth is set to cop its fair share of rain and temperatures will be slightly cooler, reaching a maximum of just 21C.

Showers are expected to drench the city on Wednesday afternoon. There is also a chance of a thunderstorm.

PERTH FORECAST:

Wednesday: 21C, rain and thunderstorms

Thursday: 20C, rain

Friday: 23C, cloudy

Saturday: 24C, cloudy

Sunday: 23C, rain

Monday: 23C, rain