Dongara

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Susan is in Dongara.

Hi, Susan.

Hi.

The AFL is a laughing stock.

Go to water when the big decisions need to be made." That's Brad in Dongara.

Yeah.

"Four fines for striking is an admission of guilt, exception, circumstances, my backside.

Bringing, it looks like, showers through most parts of the southwest land division, mostly around west coastal parts.

up to sort of 5 to 10 millimetres, Durian Bay through to the south coast, grading 1 to 3, maybe 5 millimetres from Dongara to about Ravensthorpe.

And the other side of that is less than a millimetre and potentially just getting those heavier falls around the southwest corner.

And then into Saturday, early morning, the first part of the day was where we'll see most of our showers through southern parts of the southwest land division, but it does decrease quite rapidly and contract just to coastal parts as the front moves towards the southeast belt.

Might get a little bit more than that along the Perth coast and the southwest corner, maybe up to 15 millimetres and any other sort of rain.

1 to 5 millimetres southwest of about Dongara to Meriden to Esperance and slight chance of some storms still ticking along over far eastern parts of the southwest land division on Friday.

So that's the summary a bit going on for the next few days.

Yeah, there certainly is, Catherine.

To start our conversation, I asked Rosco to tell me how Ewen came to be the first pastoral lease settled in the Murchison region.

What happened was there was animals being run, sheep, from about the Dongara area, and I obviously wasn't around.

This is through the history and, and, and listening as I've grown up, around the Dongara area up to about Northampton.

Now, there was green grass, pretty reliable rain in winter, and so on, but they just weren't doing that well.

They were suffering from coastal disease.

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I'm from Dongara, Jag's territory.

Okay.

Born, born in Dongara.

Why did everyone say Wudin-

Um, so this man-

It'll probably be after midnight Friday into Saturday morning, so that's the next chance that we'll get.

For a few showers, it doesn't look like huge rainfall totals, maybe up to four millimetres west of a roundabout, Dongara to Narrogin to Bremer Bay early on Saturday.

Catherine, thanks so much for running us through those details.

Catherine Shelfout there from the Bureau of Meteorology.

Now, in its wake, we've had a ridge move overhead, so pretty light winds over the region today.

Now our next week cold front will move overhead from Wednesday morning in the southwest with showers possible if you're southwest of Dongara down to Israelite Bay and sort of reaching that line by early Thursday.

Only light falls on the forecast up to 5mm if you're by the west and the south coasts but 0-2mm over the Great Southern with that one.

And this is quickly followed by another weak front later Thursday into Friday with similarly little rainfall.