Records fall over freezing weekend

Bunbury experienced its coldest minimum in two years and coldest maximum in four years at the weekend.

When the temperature dropped to 0C at 4.52am on Sunday, it became Bunbury's coldest night since July 2013.

The Bureau of Meteorology's apparent temperature, which considers factors such as wind chill, dropped to about -2C.

It was also the coldest August minimum ever recorded at the BoM's Carey Park site since it started being used in 1995.

The previous August low was 0.1C on August 29, 2004.

Saturday's maximum of 13.2C was also Bunbury's lowest peak since July 2011, when the top temperature was only 12.6C. Saturday's maximum was also 1.5C lower than Bunbury's previous coldest maximum for this year, recorded on July 9.

Both the average minimum and maximum temperatures recorded in Bunbury so far this month are about 1C below the long-term monthly average.

Bunbury's rain gauge was also boosted by steady weekend falls.

From 9am Thursday to 9am Monday, 24.8mm was counted - with exactly half of that falling in the 24 hours to 9am Saturday.

Last week's downpours took Bunbury's rainfall tally this month to 25.4mm, compared to the long-term August average of 117.6mm.

No significant rain is forecast this week until Sunday, with early predictions for possible thunderstorms and rainfall measuring from 8mm-20mm.