A FIRE weather warning for severe to extreme fire danger was issued for the Central West, Central Wheatbelt, Great Southern, South Coastal and Southeast Coastal districts.
Northerly winds brought very warm daytime temperatures to southern parts of WA with temperatures up to 15 degrees above average in parts.
Rainfall totals for October are well below average for southwest districts leading to very dry vegetation, which in itself poses a fire risk. Today, strong and gusty warm northwesterly winds swept through southern WA, ahead of a cold front, bringing another very warm day in parts.
The dry vegetation and strong, warm winds pose a real fire hazard and if fires were to develop they would prove difficult to control and could move very fast.
Fortunately, a cool change will move through the south over the next few days, cooling temperatures down and bringing scattered showers to the south, so the fire danger is expected to lessen.
