Australia's southwest is preparing for a destructive weather front that could link with remnants of a tropical cyclone.
Military and emergency teams on standby in Western Australia state expect a deep low pressure system to cross the coast mid-afternoon, bringing 120km/h winds and heavy rain.
The Bureau of Meteorology warned the front could link with the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Isobel, which crossed the northwest coast yesterday, and dump more than 100 millimetres of rain on the Kalgoorlie goldfields, east of Perth.
Communities along the southern coast, including Esperance and Albany, were also preparing for flooding from what authorities said would be a weather front extending 1,200 kilometres - as far as London to Rome.