Bremer Bay

And I think that is so incredibly cool that we can get that in Australia to have such vastly different landscapes that we get to go and visit.

just whenever we kind of want to or whenever we can i think that's seriously cool uh 40 media number one bremer bay number two ningaloo it just has to be i feel like it's gonna be in everyone and number three toss up between the baxter cliffs or geraldton boar on the gun barrel and 40 media so that's ryan who was one of our incredible cameramen on the gun barrel highway connie sue highway trip that we did Geraldton Boar on the Gunbarrel was awesome.

And it was awesome because I think it might have been one of the first spots we got to along the Gunbarrel Highway that had water and we could clean ourselves and shower and just...

It was so hot out there ranging up to, you know, from 40, 35 to 50 degrees on any given day.

Birchie really showed me that there is levels to driving a four wheel.

That was amazing.

And then I'd say my third favourite spot is Bremer Bay.

You can do Heap of Forbian down there.

There is a very weak front that's brushing past the south coast.

So that is bringing one or two very light showers south of Perth to about Bremer Bay.

It's going to dry up this afternoon once that front moves away.

Tomorrow, there is going to be a burst of warmer weather through much of the southwest land division.

But we definitely were hoping for 20 or 30.

Our rain gauge here, we're about 15 kilometres out of Bremer Bay town site.

The other one is at the airstrip in Bremer Bay, which is about five or six kilometres out.

It adjoins a property we share crop in there, which is in canola.

And that often gets pretty wet in there.

That's 600 plus mil rainfall.

So, so far this year, it's been a bit drier in there, which has been good up until now.

Bremer Bay farmer Peter Bacanara speaking to Andrew Chounding yesterday as that front moved south.

Yeah, well, I think the 34 years is probably all that's on DFAS records.

And from when I did some training years ago in Bremer Bay, the DFAS weren't around when I started.

Yeah, I think it was called a bushfires board or something like that.

But, you know, I was a fire officer in 1970 in the Nunup Shire.

Oh, well done.

Retired firefighter Don Tomlinson speaking to Andrew Chounding.

He farmed cattle, sheep and crops at Bremer Bay and was with the Boxwood Hills Brigade from 1990 to 2004 and he retired to Calgan and has been with the Calgan Bushfire Brigade from 2004 to this year.

And those four new fire trucks that were mentioned were handed over to the Calgan Bushfire Volunteer Brigade earlier this week while the Emergency Services Minister Rhys Whitby was in town.

Uh, but moving back to what I can see on satellite currently is partly cle-- cloudy conditions for most of the South West Land Division, and we do have some showers occurring about the Albany area and up to Katanning, though those will ease off later this afternoon.

We have a slight chance of a shower if you're southwest of Mandurah to Hopetoun tomorrow, uh, less than two millimeters there, and more likely if you're southwest of Busselton to Bremer Bay, less than four millimeters as a front approaches.

But from Friday, this low-pressure system will begin to form somewhere in central or southern WA, um, and developing rainfall, particularly over southern and central parts of the South West Land Division this weekend.

So breaking down the rainfall, starting with Friday, the focus is really in the east, so five to twenty millimeters possible about and east of Esperance, uh, with possible heavy falls under those thunderstorms.

Albany, Denbarka and Kimberley all had seven mills.

Bremer Bay, five.

Denmark, six.

Many Peaks and Mount Barker, five.

the inland part of the Midwest right through much of the Wheatbelt and then all the way down towards the south coast.

It's currently about 33 degrees all the way down into Bremer Bay.

So yeah, very warm conditions and right down to Esperance as well is about 31 degrees.

So yeah, very unusual for this time of year to be getting this warm across the region.

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And Jocelyn has text through saying that it's currently 32.8 degrees in Bremer Bay.

So it is like a spring heading towards summer sort of day today.

This will be the hottest day for eastern parts of the Southwest Land Division and the south coast.

So we're going for 33 at Bremer Bay on Thursday.

And thunderstorms on Thursday, mainly just through eastern parts of the Wheatbelt, the Great Southern and the Southeast Coastal District.

And then finally Friday... with that front coming up and moving through pretty early around the southwest capes and then moving inland during the day.