West Australians have been urged to reconsider their intrastate travel plans this weekend as the remnants of a rare, out-of-season cyclone hurtle towards the state.Tropical Cyclone Mangga is impacting the Cocos Keeling Islands before heading towards the north-west of WA and tracking down the west coast.The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said the system was likely to weaken to below cyclone intensity when it reached Australia, but it would still be considered a once-in-a-decade storm, producing wind gusts up to 130 kilometres per hour and heavy rainfall.The severe weather is expected to hit the upper part of the west coast on Sunday morning and extend down the coast during the day to reach the Perth metropolitan area and the south coast during Sunday afternoon and evening"The weather situation is really complex as a tropical system interacts with a cold front and one or two low pressure systems are likely to develop and impact the west coast during Sunday," BOM WA manager James Ashley said. "Ms James lives with about 120 other residents on West Island, one of only two inhabited islands among the Cocos Keelings island group.Volunteers have been helping residents at West Island and nearby Home Island prepare their properties for the approaching cyclone. In a life threatening situation call 000. "Seas and swells will be whipped up by any low pressure systems that form, with peak wave heights near the west coast exceeding 8 metres in parts, particularly on Monday in the westerly winds behind this system," Mr Ashley said. "Buildings in the south-west land division are not built to the same standards as those in the north-west of the state, so there's potential for significant damage to buildings," Mr Ryan said. "We're expecting a broad area of wind gusts up to 100kph across that western half of the state and the most dangerous winds with gusts around 130kph are possible in areas close to where any low pressure systems form," Mr Ashley said.The Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) has urged West Australians to delay any planned road trips on what will be the first weekend since regional travel restrictions were eased in WA.Here's a guide to help you work out what will be allowed from May 18 and what is still off limits. This … may be one of the latest cyclones in recorded history that has ever come through here," she said.The silver lining to the potentially destructive weather system is that rainfall is likely to reach farming areas after a below average May so far.The heaviest rain will be near coastal areas, but decent falls are also expected inland.
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"Boaties, surfers and thrill-seekers have been warned by DFES not to enter the water as the weather deteriorates on Sunday. "Areas west of a line from Karratha to Esperance are likely to be affected during Sunday with the worst conditions expected near the coast.By Monday the strong winds will contract to southern parts of the state. "It's important that people are safe, first and foremost.ABC Emergency has put together a checklist for you to ensure that you are prepared for storms and their aftermath. "If anybody goes out into the swell and the waves … they are courting disaster … don't even consider it. "Kylie James, who operates Cocos Islands Adventure tours, said strong winds had already started buffeting the islands. Perth and South West 'hit severely' tonight. "There's a real eerie sense. So stay safe and take care.We will be back bright and early tomorrow to bring you all the news from the storm fallout. The worst of the weather is due to hit Perth this evening and tomorrow morning, and not ease until Monday afternoon. Take our quiz to see how prepared you really are. Debris flung by the destructive winds has brought down the power network in numerous locations around the state.A tree branch fell on a moving vehicle in Geraldton this morning, with the driver and passenger escaping injury.A chemist's roof in Victoria Park got caught in power lines.A row of shops in Bedford crumbled in the strong winds. By Benjamin Gubana, Herlyn Kaur, Jacquie Lynch and Emma Field. "The other unusual feature is that it has the potential to impact such a large part of the state. If you have any images, stories or suggestions, please email us at About 50,000 homes are bracing for a night without power after destructive winds associated with the front have thrown debris, including tree branches, into the network, damaging equipment and bringing down power lines.Western Power spokesman Paul Entwistle said in the metropolitan area around 37,000 homes and businesses were impacted by outages and there were reports of a radio tower bringing down power lines in Bassendean and rooftops in Geraldton being dislodged and hitting the network, also bringing down power lines.The most heavily affected suburbs were Beckenham, East Cannington, Kenwick, Bayswater, Bassendean, Mirrabooka, Dianella, and Malaga“Our network operations teams, however, will look for opportunities to isolate damaged parts of the network and backfeed power to restore customers where it is safe to do so,” he said.“However, this will mean that some customers who are currently without power may need to make arrangements to be without power overnight.He said 70 crews were currently addressing hazards on the network, but crews would not attempt any repair work during the storm because operating elevated work platforms (cherrypickers) and other equipment was not safe.The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting the strongest storm winds will not reach the metropolitan area until after 5pm this evening, before moving down to the South West by around 8pm.“Our priority during the storm is responding to the hazards being reported to us on 13 13 51 so we can make them safe and ensure the safety of the community and our crews,” he said.“We apologise for this inconvenience if you are impacted by outages overnight from this complex and unpredictable weather system.”Roofs have been ripped off from WA homes and businesses, trees have fallen on to roads and powerlines are out but there is nothing “out of the box” in terms of incidents during a severe weather warning, according to a Department of Fire and Emergency Services spokesman.DFES spokesman Matt Folini said by Sunday afternoon the service had received 69 incident reports in the Midwest-Gascoyne region and 62 in the Perth Metropolitan area but that was to be expected.“There is not a significant pocket in the state that has been affected by the storm,” he said.“The incidents reported are from all over, with some within the metropolitan area including Rockingham, Belmont, Cloverdale and Bassendean.“There’s been quite a few calls for structural damage, which is not out of the box at this stage, they mainly relate to roof damage and trees down.”Mr Folini said there was nothing of great significance but did note that the roof of a home on David Road in Waggrakine, a northern suburb of Geraldton, had been stripped back about 2.40pm.Images of fallen trees and roofs ripped off businesses, including a chemist in Victoria Park, are starting to flood social media and community group pages as the impact of the storm starts to pick up.A row of shops in Bedford has also crumbled in the storm onslaught.The Lahori restaurant, a lunch bar and a fish and chip shop on Grand Promenade have fallen victim to the strong winds.This Google Street View image shows what the shops looked like before.Wind gusts of around 100 km/h have slammed the southwest from Onslow to Esperance, including the Perth metropolitan area.Isolated wind gusts of up to 130 km/h are possible near the west coast this evening, and then the southwest early Monday morning.Winds are expected to ease across the Pilbara and Gascoyne overnight tonight, and through the southwest during Monday afternoon and evening.Strong winds have raised dust through large areas of the Gascoyne and Central West, blanketing many towns including Geraldton.Rainfall totals in the Pilbara and western Kimberley coastal areas are likely to be around 20-40mmwith isolated falls in coastal areas from Cape Leveque and Broome down to Kalbarri of up to 100mm.Heavy falls of rain are also likely down the west coast from Kalbarri to Albany with totals of around 20-30mm and some isolated falls up to 60mm.Much of the agricultural areas are likely to receive falls in the range of 10-20mm.Seas and swells are already being whipped up by the system for much of the west coast, with peak wave heights in excess of 8 metres predicted for the southwest on Monday, combining with higher than usual tides, and leading to significant beach erosion.Storm tides are also likely to be dangerous and could lead to coastal inundation.For Perth, severe winds are currently being observed and will continue through the night into Monday morning.This is a rare event for WA due to the extent of the area affected and the possibility of multiple areas of dangerous weather.About 30,000 Western Power customers across the state have been affected by power outages and problems caused by the storm so far, with the service provider already receiving more than 5000 calls.Western Power spokesman Paul Entwistle told ABC Radio on Sunday afternoon the brunt of the storm was mainly affecting people in the north and metropolitan area at this point.“Across the network we're looking at around just under 30,000 customers everywhere from Kalbarri in the north all the way through to Busselton, and there’s a couple of small outages out near Albany,” he said.“But it's mainly the north and the metropolitan area that's copping the brunt of the storm at this point.“To date we've already had just over 5000 calls come into our contact controls with people reporting outages and damage so from that we can find out where the hazard is and we send some of our primary response crews out to those straight away.“A large pocket of people have been out for a little while now in Bassendean and we're getting a report there that is a structure, something like a radio tower or compounds being brought down into power lines.”Mr Entwistle said the majority of power outages and problems caused to the network had been as a result of debris flying into powerlines but that there wasn’t a lot of reports of damage to the poles themselves.“At least one roof has been blown into powerlines up in Geraldton, which is contributing to a lot of branches fouling up power lines, especially along that Port Denison, Dongara area,” he said.“The poles themselves, wind doesn’t bother them too much, it’s what's being flicked around by the wind.“When you get foreign material introduced into the network at high velocity, it generally has an impact on power supply.”Mr Entwistle said Western Power’s main priority right now was to respond to those hazards and reminded motorists that if they did see a Western Power truck with lights flashing and siren blaring, to keep to the left and follow the same process had they seen an ambulance or fire engine.Emergency services have answered more than 91 calls for help in the last 24 hours.
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