About 50,000 homes and businesses were without power across Western Australia state on Sunday as a severe storm hit the the coast and brought wind gusts of more than 100 kilometres per hour, officials said.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -- About 50,000 homes and businesses were without power across Western Australia state on Sunday as a severe storm hit the the coast and brought wind gusts of more than 100 kilometres per hour, officials said.Jon Broomhall, acting assistant commissioner of Western Australia's department of fire and emergency services, called the storm "a once-in-a-decade-type system.
A Bureau of Meteorology official, James Ashley, said the weather formation was "dynamic and complex," as a system from Cyclone Mangga in the southern Indian Ocean interacted with a cold front. The worst of the weather was due to hit Perth later Sunday evening and Monday morning, and not ease until Monday afternoon.
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