I have officially been in heaven this evening, Its still 27c at gone 10.30pm, there is not a breath of wind and i have been watching lightning from the beach lighting up the Indian ocean. Absolute heaven, i could have stayed there all night, as things seem to be developing even more now. Nothing better than watching a distant storm over the ocean, on a hot, still night.

Originally Posted by: Essan 

Personally, I'd prefer the temp nearer 27f


btw on the subject of crazy weather, I see there's been summer snow fall in the Victorian Alps!

Originally Posted by: perthite 

It was 45c in parts of inland Victoria a few days ago. Some very extreme weather affecting Australia at the moment. Hopefully our resident Sydneysider will post shortly on what is going on down the Eastern side.

I try and guess where you live - Is it Cottesloe, City Beach, Scarborough, Fremantle.

Just a guess.

If you can - any chance you get a picture of those storms.

Here is a picture taken from one of the guys on the West Australian weather forum. I love the undulating clouds, not sure which beach this was taken from. Saw hundreds of these strikes out over the ocean last night like this and another day of storms today, very threatening skies at the moment with big spots of rain.

That is incredible - Jamie R would be well impressed with that one.

I would love to see something like that in Perth.

I notice as well how calm the ocean is. Very nice.

The below pic was taken from Cottesloe just before sunset, as the mid level cloud began to develop over the ocean ahead of the spectacular nightstorms.

Amazing - and of course this is December. Again I don't remember getting weather like this in December. The sort of stuff you are getting now I remember in March and April.

In fact April could be quite stormy - it was when I was living there.

Hi Gav, the ocean was completely flat, absolute silence and i think that made the whole night even more memorable. I am looking at this mornings latest charts and there looks huge potential for a very thundery week next week. Quite remarkable i don't think i have had this many thundery outbreaks in the last 6 years as we have had in the past 2 months.

I actually live further North and was at the beach at Mindarie, around 40km North of the CBD. We pretty much have suburbs stretching right upto Yanchep now.

That's amazing - In fact I don't recall ever even hearing a rumble of thunder in the 4 Decembers that I was in Perth.

You mentioned a suburb called Mindarie - As you said that's one of the new ones. I'll have to PM you a decent letter.

I reckon Perth has added 20 suburbs or more since I was living there - When I went back and paid a visit in 1999 - I hired a car and drove up the Mitchell Freeway in the direction of the north and came across a suburb called Joondalup - That didn't exist when I was living there. I was amazed how much new buidling there was.

Last time we were out in Perth we went up to Broome for a while and then travel back down past Perth to Nannup and stayed with family. After getting up in morning walking outside to find it white with a ground frost (June), the one thing I found unforgettable was when dark arrived, looking up at the Milky Way.

It was stunning, crystal clear skies.

Fantastic photo's btw

This is another fantastic shot from last night, the weather has changed now with the winds becoming South-westerly and more stable air moving in. The dew point is still around 19c though and its extremely humid for the normal Perth climate.

wow!..great picture Perthite looks like something out of a blockbuster film!,keep up the updates really do enjoy reading your posts

stunning thats the only word to use

That would look great in a movie

Awesome pic

Those pictures are incredible.

Excellent.

Well, the unusual Perth weather is set to continue. A trough is going to sit in the vicinity of the coast, that means around Perth for the next 4 days. This combining with mid level moisture brought down from the tropical Indian Ocean means more thunderstorms and humidity. From tomorrow there is the risk of thunderstorms and the potential is there for some absolute beauties. Hopefully therefore in the coming days i will be able to post more brilliant photo's. Just an absolutely fantastic spell of weather :-)

Here is another photo from that amazing storm over the Ocean on Tuesday evening. This was taken by another West Australian forum member Jordan Cantelo. This is a beautiful image.

I would love to know what equipment they used to take these pics - I wonder if it was done by tripod - or by use of a lightning detector.

Or perhaps both.

Another storm yesterday evening with the convergence of a hot Easterly wind and a weak sea breeze around the coast. There was very little rain produced, but a beautiful Arcus cloud formation on the actual convergence line. Unfortunately i don't have any pictures of the formation, but it was spectacular. The next 3 days bring the risk of severe thunderstorms, especially Wednesday which have a Li of around -8, and available CAPE of around 1000+ and very little covective inhibition either. Possibily dangerous storms on Wednesday!

We had some rain yesterday evening here ( Wattle Grove ) enough to make the ground damp.

Looking good for Wednesday, those charts remind me of the March storm a couple of years ago 

Here's a link to a picture of the roll cloud from yesterday. 

Roll Cloud

Welcome to TWO - It's always good to have new people on here and I must add a very big welcome to you as another person from Perth Western Australia.

We on this fourm look forward to more posts on here from you.

Thanks very much.

Btw my knowledge of Perth is due to the fact I was very fortunate to live there for a few years in the late 1980s.