WA experiences its hottest summer on record, but Perth bucks the trend and posts its third consecutive summer of cooler than average temperatures.
There has been very little tropical activity in WA's north, with no cyclones crossing the coast so far this wet season."In terms of rainfall for WA, it's been very dry — the fifth lowest on record and the lowest since the summer of 2004–05," Mr Bennett said.
"The northern wet season is very dry which is a complete contrast to what we had last season where they had one of the wettest — if not the wettest — wet seasons on record." During the past two summers, Perth was drenched by the remnants of tropical systems in the north, recording 114 millimetres of rain in a 24-hour period in February 2017, and 96 millimetres in January 2018."That's the driest since 2013–14. In previous summers that have been mild we've seen a lot of tropical activity and that's brought a lot of rainfall and really pulled temperatures right down," Mr Bennett said.
"It's fair to say WA has probably been the pick of the states with the exception of the extreme heat through the Pilbara and the Kimberley and parts of the Gascoyne and Goldfields," he said. "Apart from that we've been fortunate to escape much of the severe weather conditions that many other parts of the country have experienced.
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