Albany records wettest June day in 11 years as wet weather is set to clear before the weekend

Albany recorded its wettest June day in 11 years over the weekend, as the wet weather is forecast to clear towards the later part of the week.

In the 24 hours to 9am on Monday, the Albany town rain observation site recorded 41.4 mm of rain, the highest June rainfall recording since 2012 when 49.1mm was recorded on June 2.

Other sites in the Great Southern that received high rainfall in the 24 hours to 9am on Monday included a site east of Albany known as Tamar which recorded 40.2mm, its eighth highest June reading in the site’s 77 year history.

The Albany town site has recorded 160 per cent of its monthly rainfall average for June, with other locations in the region also recording high readings.

Kimberly, near Denmark, is at 250 per cent of its monthly June rainfall average, with Lake Grace recording 200 per cent and Jacup at 230 per cent.

Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster Jessica Lingard said the June rainfall recordings across the Great Southern were in contrast to the predicted climate outlook which suggested drier conditions.

Ms Lingard said this was due to a series of cold fronts which were followed by a “very moist south-westerly airflow”, causing onshore flow showers.

“. . . All this air coming up off the ocean carries a lot of moisture with it, and then when it reaches the land, it all rains out,” she said.

“So that’s been helping to top up the rainfall — there haven’t been many, if any days where we haven’t recorded rainfall at all.”

Ms Lingard said showers were expected to ease on Wednesday and Thursday, with drier conditions forecasted on Friday, Saturday and Sunday before another cold front is set to arrive on Sunday night.