Lancelin

The Great Pub Mat Heist.

A group of blokes in L-A-N-C-E-L-I-N. Lancelin?

I was going to say

Lancelin.

Lancelin in WA have gone viral after allegedly pulling off one of the most ridiculous pub robberies in WA history.

What did they steal? Cash? Booze? FPOS machine? Nah, they stole all the bar mats.

Yeah, maybe one or two.

Even the football premiership flag doesn't stand a chance.

There has been showers and thunderstorms through that area there, kicking away overnight last night and all through the day so far today.

So pretty much looking at the radar, if you draw a line from sort of north of Bencubbin to Lancelin, or it's north of Lancelin, so not actually reaching Lancelin, but sort of around that line and through to south of around Inuyaba through to...

Menzies, that's where the line is of the showers and thunderstorms.

It's pretty much an east-west line.

Going for some temperatures, 26 in Katanning tomorrow, 28 for Jinjin.

And we do have showers and thunderstorms possible north of the line around about Lancelin to Merredin.

So they, as I mentioned, for the central parts, they could be quite gusty.

Rainfall, we're looking at mostly sort of 2 to 5 millimetres for those parts.

No, way before Geraldton.

Or like Lancelin and stuff? Like before Lancelin.

Yanchina.

Yeah, Yanchip.

Same thing, 20 minutes, get picked up again.

20 minutes.

At this point, I'm like still an hour away from Lancelin, which is like nowhere near.

Like it's so early into it.

So we're looking at about 2 to 8 millimetres through those districts and maybe up to 15 millimetres around the Albany coast.

And for the west coast, 1 to 5 millimetres anywhere south of about Lancelin.

On top of that, we've got the chance of small hail through those southern districts and mostly along the Albany and Esperance coast, just a slight chance of a thunderstorm there tomorrow.

For Sunday, we get the ridge extending a little further east into the Eucla, so we will see winds easing a bit over the southwest land division.

So that will move through, well, north and east gradually through this afternoon and overnight.

By midnight tonight, sort of southwest of a line, Lancelin through to around Bremer Bay is where we'll see the showers, mostly around the southwest capes.

And then by early tomorrow morning, the shower lines looking around Kalbari through to Salmon Gums, through to Israelite Bay.

One to three millimetres from about Perth to Albany area.

On the other side of that, you're sort of looking at less than a mil and as you get more towards that northern and eastern part, it's like half a mil, half a millimetre of rainfall, but it'll get quite patchy.

from that Lancelin on that northeastern side of that Lancelin to Bremer Bay area.

So it doesn't really hold together, not much in this cold front and not much really in the cold fronts moving through for the weekend either.

So the next cold front is then going to be during the day on Friday, mostly about the western and southern districts that will get some rainfall out of it.

Then a front crosses the far southwest of the state on Wednesday afternoon, and it'll sweep over the southwest during Thursday.

Now, those south of Lancelin to Bremer Bay may catch a light drop, but less than two millimetres, maybe up to five millimetres about the Darling Scarp and the southwest district as well.

And finally, southerly winds, or sorry, southwesterly winds and showers about the south coast and cooler temperatures will prevail for the remainder of Thursday and into Friday, Belinda.

Grace, thank you for going through those details.

So it just depends on the timing.

More likely that we'll get the sort of heavier rainfall around the southwest corner Saturday night and then Sunday we're looking at 5 to 10 mils for the southwest corner and and maybe 1 to 3 millimetres extending up as far as southwest of a line, Lancelin to Bremer Bay, not much anywhere else.

We do still have a shower and thunderstorm chance for that southeast coastal district and far eastern parts of the Great Southern, so places like Lake King, Ravensthorpe and Esperance.

But generally cooler, particularly for the southwest, we're down at max temperatures around 18 to 21 degrees, and have westerly winds with that front having moved through.

So fresh and gusty at times in the morning, but they'll ease by evening.

Monday, mostly just a new ridge, the main driver of the weather there.

So some light showers near the west coast south of about Lancelin, and that's just due to the onshore flow, and maybe just a few light showers along the south coast as well.

Still that trough sitting inland so once again a chance of afternoon thunderstorms through far eastern parts or northeastern parts actually so perhaps Bencubbin and Merredin.