My parents have lived in Perth all their lives and my dad was saying he has never known it to be so dry in May. It looks like mid summer, bare paddocks and days of 28-30c at their place in the Perth hills.
Very dry in Bacchus Marsh! Looks like summer already… currently a warm and very dry 25c, 15%RH and -4c DP… Unless my weather station is wrong, that is very dry for September.