Winter records set in Perth

Perth has recorded its second driest winter on record, its equal sunniest winter, and record low temperatures.

The rainfall for the three months from June 1 was 256.4mm, the driest since 230.4mm was recorded in 2006, Western Australia's Bureau of Meteorology says.

'The whole winter dominated mostly by high pressure basically just stopped the winter fronts dumping the rain,' the bureau's climate information officer John Relf said on Tuesday.

'I think over east must have had it, because we didn't.'

The average winter rainfall for the Perth metropolitan area is 480.7mm, based on 135 years of records since 1876.
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And indeed: Wettest Victoria winter since mid-1990s