A massive storm is wreaking havoc on southern coastal parts of Western Australia, including Perth, with thousands of homes without power, trees down and reports of widespread property damage.
State Emergency Services (SES) staff have answered hundreds of calls for help overnight and this morning.
Most were for structural and roof damage with the majority of call-outs in the Perth metropolitan area and Mid West Gascoyne.
Wind gusts of up to 126 kilometres per hour were recorded at Cape Leeuwin, in the state's south-west.
Western Power is working to restore supplies to about 50,000 properties from the Mid West to the Great Southern districts, including Perth.
Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) forecaster Rohan Smith told ABC Radio damaging winds would continue for much of the south of the state throughout Monday.
"Winds have now eased up in the north-west, anywhere south-west of a line Lancelin to Bremer Bay can expect gusts isolated gusts of 130 km an hour this morning," he said.
"Between Kalbarri and Augusta, people on the coast need to watch out for a dangerous storm tide, which is going to be well above the normal high tide mark, with damaging waves and flooding also expected.
"This will extend further east to Albany during the day."
The SES responded to 360 requests for assistance across the state from about 8:00am on Sunday.
Most of the requests related to structural and roof damage.
BOM forecaster Noel Pusey said the central Pilbara coast had received 30 to 40 millimetres of rain, while Learmonth had 59.6mm.
"In the south, they had some pretty reasonable falls of 51-52mm around the South West capes, [and] wind gusts, the strongest one we've seen was 132kph at Cape Leeuwin," he said.
"That low definitely caused a quite a strong pressure gradient through there and pretty decent westerly gales through there, and I expect the tides were higher than normal through the Geographe Bay area but right along the west coast."
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