Sunny, Dry and 12°C: Perth Gets a Perfect November Sunday and Immediately Worries What It Will Cost Later
Less than a 5% chance of rain and light winds. Perth residents look at the blue sky and wonder what they've done to deserve it.
Blue sky over Perth. Not a cloud. Nobody trusts it. Photo: Simon Armstrong, “Perth Tay Bridge”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Perth is in for a sunny, dry Sunday with a top temperature of 12°C, light winds and less than a 5% chance of rain, according to the Met Office.
“I don’t like it,” said a Bridgend woman, looking at the sky with her arms folded. “It’s November. It’s meant to be grey and wet. When it’s this nice, it means something’s coming. It’s like when your mum is being kind to you before she tells you you’re moving house.”
Visibility is described by forecasters as “excellent”, and the sun is up at 7.22am and down at 4.31pm, which gives Perth just over nine hours to make the most of it.
Washing lines across the city were full by 9am. “I’m not missing this,” said a man from Craigie, hanging out six shirts. “This is the last drying day until April. I’ve washed things that weren’t even dirty.”
The Met Office says high pressure is in charge, with dry weather lasting into the start of the week. Perth says it will believe that on Wednesday.
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