Monster rain bomb smashes Australia’s east coast – here’s when the wet weather will end
- Perth records wettest June day in 37 years
- Rain bomb barrelling east, bringing storms
- Temperatures to remain steady despite wet
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Heavy rain and thunderstorms are lashing large parts of Australia after the second driest May on record, with the wet weather not set to subside until Friday.
A powerful cold front is currently barrelling its way across Western Australia, bringing the threat of torrential downpours and damaging winds in the coming days for the east of the country.
With the east coast already experiencing a wet and dreary Tuesday, as much as 40mm of rain is expected to hammer the area across the next 48 hours.
The system will bring cold air into South Australia by the end of Wednesday with the cooler temperatures hitting Victoria, Tasmania and NSW later in the week.

A powerful cold front making its way across Western Australia will bring heavy rain, thunderstorms and possible flooding for large parts of Victoria and New South Wales

As much as 20-40mm worth of rain is expected in the country’s east on Wednesday and Thursday
The drop in temperature will be accompanied by cloud cover, rain, storms and strong winds making it feel even colder – with temperatures in Adelaide feeling 3C cooler on Thursday than the forecast temperatures.
Perth took the early brunt of the severe weather system, experiencing record-breaking rainfall Sunday night into Monday morning with a total of 71.2mm pouring out of the sky.
It marked the wettest day in any month in almost five-and-a-half years for the Western Australian capital and the wettest June day in 37 years.
With the storms also came flash flooding and lightning, with over 450 lightning strikes recorded within 50km of Perth and almost 17,000 around southwest WA.
Perth will continue to see wet conditions this week with 10-25mm of rain predicted on Tuesday.
It was perhaps welcomed after Western Australia experienced its driest May on record.
For the country as a whole, it was the second driest May on record with only 7.9mm of rainfall recorded – the second lowest in 124 years’ worth of records.
The cold front will push a rain band into parts of northern Victoria and southern New South Wales from tomorrow into Thursday, where there is likely to be flooding.
Weatherzone Meteorologist James Rout warned Daily Mail Australia the ‘thunderstorms in that system will be severe’.
‘We could see damaging winds, heavy rainfall and maybe even large hail,’ he said.

Perth took the early brunt of the severe weather system, experiencing record-breaking rainfall Sunday night into Monday morning with a total of 71.2mm pouring out of the sky (stock image)
‘There’s a powerful cold front crossing Western Australia at the moment where it brought heavy rainfall there yesterday and today.
‘From tomorrow, it’s going to be bringing rain and thunderstorms to eastern South Australia, western Victoria and western New South Wales.’
The rain bomb from the west will push a band of wet weather into Victoria and NSW on Thursday.
Mr Rout said inland NSW could be lashed by twice as much rain normally expected for the month of June.
‘In the NSW the system coming through on Wednesday and Thursday could bring 20 to 40mm of rain, with higher rainfall in smaller areas caused by thunderstorms,’ Mr Rout said.
‘The average given rainfall for June for inland NSW is 10 to 25mm. The rainfall coming through is at least a month’s worth of rain and possibly twice as much.’
But things should calm down after the deluge.
‘There should not be any other system like that for the next ten days,’ explained Mr Rout.
‘High pressure will settle things down in the short term. There’s another front that’s going to clip the south but it’s not going to be bringing too much heavy rain.
Despite the cold weather systems, Mr Rout said temperatures will remain much above the June average as humid air from the Coral Sea sweeps the country.