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Albany Weather Watch Radar
Western Australia
Western Australia
34.9500°S
117.8000°E
69m AMSL
LocationAlbany Meteorological Office Radar TypeMeteor 735C (C-Band, Doppler and Dual Pol enabled) Typical Availability24 hours
The Albany radar is rarely affected by false echoes or anomalous propagation and there are no permanent echoes. During the winter months rain bands may be observed moving in from the north-west ahead of strong cold fronts. Heavy showers occur with the passage of these fronts with further lines of showers embedded in the strong west to southwest winds that follow. Large thunder storm cells can also be seen moving along just off the south coast prior to the arrival of these strong fronts. "Cut-off" lows, with their own individual circulation, can occasionally develop off the south coast in the wake of cold fronts. Such circulations, when established, are generally slow moving and can produce large areas of rain and drizzle for days. South to southeast winds accompany such systems. During the summer months convective thunderstorms occasionally develop to the north-east of Albany near the Stirling Ranges and move to the southeast during the evening. Lightning from these storms creates a great night display but is a very real fire hazard. Heavy rain directly over the radar site can cause attenuation of all signals. Path attenuation can also occur when the radar beam passes through intense rainfall, with the returned signals from cells further along that path reduced.
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Warmest night in decades for parts of WA
13:24 AEDT After a searing hot day, Western Australians sweltered through a near record warm night last night. The uncomfortable days and nights are being caused by extremely hot and dry easterly winds flowing over the west coast in response to Severe Tropical Cyclone Sean. Image: 850hPa temperature and wind at 8pm AWST on Monday, January 20 showing clockwise winds around Severe Tropical Cyclone Sean dragging a hot airmass from Australia’s interior all the way to the west coast. This is causing a severe to extreme heatwave to impact southwestern WA, with Geraldton equalling its highest record temperature of 49.3°C on Monday, meanwhile Perth airport hit 44.7°C and the city 43.6°C. After an extremely hot day, temperatures remained in the mid to high 30s across the southwest of the state until around 8pm before finally dropping into the high 20s after midnight. For some locations in western WA Monday night was the warmest in decades; Mandurah’s minimum dropped to 28.4°C which equals the record set in 1968. Bickley a western suburb of Perth recorded a minimum of 27.1°C, which is the warmest night in at least 30 years. Perth’s temperature dropped to a warm 27.2°C, 9°C above average and only 2.5°C off the record. The severe to extreme heatwave is set to continue across large parts of WA for the next three days, with temperatures forecast to reach the high 30s to low 40s.
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