What's the temperature where you are???

[EmmaDonovan]

4:45 PM
103F
2% humidity
sunny

 

[Nym]

Monday 3rd of June 10a.m. Cloudy, cold & windy. 27.8 / 33.3kph WNW, Hg 40%, 14.4C / 57.9F top of 17C / 63F. Wind easing. Mostly sunny (no sun, all cloud).

Moon is 15.6%

SES assessing damage after storm lashes Bunbury, southern Western Australia​

Emergency services remain on the ground in Bunbury after a 'freak storm' left a trail of destruction in the coastal city overnight, about 170 kilometres south of Perth.

The Department of Fire and Emergency Services said it received about 110 requests for assistance after the storm hit parts of Bunbury and surrounding areas around 10pm on Saturday.

Emergency services are assessing the damage and about 8,000 properties remain without power in the area.

The Parade Hotel lost a large section of its roof while guests were inside.

Bunbury fire station spokesman Daryn Rowland said there were 10 people in the pub when the storm hit, with two taken to hospital.

"Our main concern was the people inside ... luckily they have all escaped with a few minor injuries," he said.

"There is also significant damage to other buildings in the area from this freak weather event."

Makayla Dunn was inside the Parade Hotel when the storm hit, and said it hit suddenly.

"The roof collapsed on us," she said.

A number of residents on Austral Parade reported parts of the Parade Hotel’s roof flying into their homes and causing damage.

Max Keiley, who was home with his wife at the time, said the noise of the storm hitting his house was like the “blast of an atomic bomb”.

“I was laying in bed asleep and there was just an almighty bang,” he said.

“My wife was in the front of the house and she screamed and came running in and we went out and there’s stuff going everywhere, all this stuff just flying through the air.”

Mr Keiley said the storm came quickly but has left damage in the hundreds of thousands with their roof damaged, an entire room destroyed and several car windscreens smashed in.

A wild storm ripped through East Bunbury on Saturday night. Credit: Oliver Lane
“The room where it hit is all caved in,” he said.

“My wife’s sewing room is destroyed, it smashed the sewing machine, smashed the vacuum cleaner up.”

Another resident on the street Lesley Gates said as the storm came through she feared a repeat of the May 10 tornado which ripped through Bunbury’s Southern suburbs.

“We looked outside our front door ... and when you looked out the door, it was things flying past us and lightning in the sky but it just sounded really scary so we shut the door,” she said.

“I thought it was going to be one of those tornadoes like the other week was in Bunbury but it just passed and then when we came out there were fence panels all down our side.”

Owys Garden in Glen Iris is one of the other casualties, with its owners saying the nursery has been “pretty much completely destroyed”.

“Over the next week we’d love some help cleaning up this place,” a Facebook post said.

The owner said the nursery is ‘pretty much completely destroyed’. Credit: Owys garden/Facebook

 

[janiedoe]

Its storming here again.

 

[Brooks_]

There has to be something to be said about that. I know you DSW people say it has its pitfalls, but just by walking around out there...I'm dripping sweat.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

There has to be something to be said about that. I know you DSW people say it has its pitfalls, but just by walking around out there...I'm dripping sweat.

{offers you a strawberry lemonade popsicle}

The dewpoint is -8° right now. I didn't even know that was a thing.

I've been in the dripping wet heat of the south, not in Florida, but in Georgia, Alabama, etc. That is far easier to deal with, at least for me. Air conditioning is a real blessing.

Here we operate air conditioners and humidifiers at the same time. Yes, it's crazy but you can reach a kind of equilibrium in a room that way. You don't really have a choice.

This is such a weird place to live.

 

[Brooks_]

Here we operate air conditioners and humidifiers at the same time

Reminds me of Steven Wright.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Reminds me of Steven Wright.

It DOES. I love that guy's humor!

 

[EmmaDonovan]

8:00 PM
100F
3% humidity
clear

From earlier today:

These guys are everywhere right now. Bark scorpions glow in black light if they've shed recently. We use a black light to check patios, garages, and bedrooms. We check our clothes and especially shoes before putting them on and bed linens before getting into bed.

June = scorpions. July and August = tarantulas. Fun times.

 

[Nomadicus]

70° and partly cloudy

 

[chrissynemetz]

63°F mostly clear and breezy
11:22 p.m.