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According to ABC News, Western Australia experienced sharply varied weather in October, including above-average heat, chilly mornings, thunderstorms, showers and an isolated hailstorm.

Early in the month, a slow-moving low-pressure trough brought isolated thunderstorms to the Goldfields and parts of the Gascoyne and Interior, while rain fell across large areas of the South West. A storm linked to surface and upper-level troughs produced thousands of lightning strikes across far northern and eastern Perth, the Mid West and Central Wheatbelt. Kalannie recorded the highest rainfall from that system, with 12 millimetres.

Hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Exmouth, where it is rare because conditions are generally too warm for hail to form. Local Jackie Brooks said it was the first hail she had seen in 30 years living in the coastal town.

Temperatures also differed widely across the state. Halls Creek reached 42C, while Broome recorded 41.2C, nearly 10C above its October average of 33C. Perth had at least 12 days above its average October maximum of 23.4C. Later in the month, Narrogin fell to 0C and Collie reached a minimum of 0.1C as a weak cold front spread cool air across southern areas.

North Walpole received 118 millimetres of rain, and Warburton finished the month with five times its average rainfall. Perth recorded 38.6mm, below its 40mm October average and its sixth consecutive month of below-average rainfall. The Bureau of Meteorology forecasts an increased chance of unusually high rainfall across southern WA from November.