Its funny you say that midianfire. Last year at times Broome would have a cranking Low just to the North of us and nothing. You'd expect it but WA just doesn't have the same rainfall rates from these things (most of the time) compared to NT and QLD. Unless your right in the path of it, its a real hit or miss scenario. No doubt somewhere will awaken tommorrow with a nice 60mm in the gauge and everywhere else will miss out.

As the sounding says though the moisture is up there at height it just needs to mix down through the lower layers and then it should rain heavily for the rest of the night. I Still think its a chance though.

Geraldton is just now hitting 30-40 knts. Kiteboarders will be spewing its night time lol.

looks like i should get the hose out and water my lawn/ dirt farm. miss the good old NQ weather

I said this last year with Dianne (and I was wrong) going to stick my neck out again and say it now..... the show ain't over till the fat lady sings. (Although she may be wheezing a bit by now.)

Woah! Getting some terrific gusts up on the side of this mountain, my wind chimes are really singing a tune! No rain though sadly.

Still throwing it down here at Ledge Point, been a solid 4hrs of the real heavy stuff. I've got water seeping through the walls of the tent on the wind ward side, thank god we sleep on stretchers and not on the floor where the waters ponding as I type.

Just drove back from Fremantle to Perth and all the roads are dry as a bone. Very slight drizzle outside now but thats it.
Think I will give up this weather stuff. so frustrating is all the build up for no result. ahhhhh maybe next time.

come on guys, could have mistaken this for the coral sea thread, Iggys dead, let him go..... let him go.

Nooooooooooooo......!

Bit delayed posting here but nice to see 78mm in Lancelin.

Poncho wont let him go till he's done his thing. Pity about Qld though you have to let em go before they even really start lol.

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
SEVERE WEATHER WARNING
for Heavy Rainfall and Damaging Winds
For people in parts of WA west of a line Kalbarri to Morawa to Wongan Hills to
Narrogin to Harvey. This includes people in, near or between the following
towns: Geraldton, Jurien Bay, Perth, Mandurah, York and Narrogin.
Issued at 8:45 pm on Thursday 2 February 2012

WEATHER SITUATION

The remnants of ex-Tropical Cyclone Iggy is lying off the WA coast and is
expected to produce areas of rain and thunderstorms over western parts of the SW
Land Division during this evening and into early Friday morning.

HEAVY RAINFALL conducive to FLASH FLOODING should occur within the area bounded
by Jurien Bay to Wongan Hills to Narrogin to Harvey, which includes the
communities of Perth, Mandurah and York.

DAMAGING WINDS to 100 kilometres per hour that could cause DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
are possible this evening within the area bounded by Kalbarri to Morawa to
Wongan Hills to Perth, which includes the communities of Geraldton and Jurien
Bay.

Lancelin has recorded 78mm of rain since 3pm.

HIGHER THAN NORMAL TIDES are expected along the west coast.

gota love the bit about Perth being a community LOL

Ah well. 17.6 mm in my guage overnight. Thats what we wanted from Ziggy Iggy. Lots of larger falls as you mentioned Popeye to the north.
At the end of the day Perth only wanted the rain from the big fella and he did tease us for a bit yesterday, but when we had a nap, he gave us everything he had left in his belly. Thanks Iggy.

Hubby rang me from Canning Vale about an hour ago, and it was coming in sideways there!

An incredible image compliments of NASA





NASA Satellites See Wind Shear Battering Tropical Depression Iggy

NASA satellites have watched as wind shear has torn Cyclone Iggy apart over the last day. NASA infrared satellite imagery showed that Iggy's strongest thunderstorms have been pushed away from the storm's center and visible imagery shows the storm is being stretched out. Iggy is weakening and heading for a landfall between Geraldton and Perth.

When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Iggy on Feb. 1 at 1805 UTC (1:05 p.m. EST), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard captured an infrared look at the cyclone. AIRS data showed that the strongest thunderstorms (with the coldest cloud top temperatures) had been pushed to the southeast of Iggy's center. That convection was pushed by vertical wind shear from the northwest. Once convection is pushed away from a tropical cyclone's center, the storm begins to fall apart. Tropical cyclones must be stacked in the atmosphere like a haystack. If the middle (convection in this case) gets pushed out, then the storm collapses.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a true color image of Iggy when it passed overhead on Feb. 2, 2012 at 0615 UTC (1:15 a.m. EST). The MODIS image clearly shows how the wind shear is affecting the tropical depression because Iggy appears elongated from northwest to southeast, which is the direction of the wind shear.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABM) issued severe weather warnings for residents from Kalbarri to Morawa, and from Morawa to Wongan Hills; and Wongan to Narrogin and Harvey. The ABM website noted that the warning includes people in, near or between the following towns: Geraldton, Jurien Bay, Perth, Mandurah, York and Narrogin. Those areas can expect thunderstorms with heavy rainfall, and gusty winds as Iggy continues moving east. Flash flooding is also a possibility from the heavy rainfall.

On February 2, 2012, Tropical Depression Iggy had maximum sustained winds near 30 knots (~35 mph/~56 kph). It was located about 170 nautical miles (~196 miles/~315 km) northwest of Perth, Western Australia, and its center was near 29.9 South latitude and 114.2 East longitude. Iggy was moving to the east at 14 knots (16 mph/~26 kph) and is expected to continue in that direction making landfall before 0300 UTC on February 3, 2012 (or before 10 p.m. EST, Feb. 3). Iggy is expected to quickly weaken to a remnant low as it moves further inland in Western Australia.

Credit: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team

Text Credit: Rob Gutro
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

Lovely pic, hope the results at ground level were positive. On the point, how much rain did Perth get and did the severely hot weather Perth was experiencing finally cool off?

Hi TW, recorded rain for Perth was about 23mm all up and yes we got some nice cool weather from Iggy. Only in the last day or so has it started to warm up again. Would't mind one of those every couple of weeks over summer!