Perth weather delivers fourth straight 40C day as review ordered into Western Power outages

Thousands of homes across Perth were without power on Tuesday as the city endured its fourth straight day of over 40 degrees Celsius.

But after some 4,000 properties were blacked out earlier in the day, Western Power said fewer than 1,000 homes remained offline as of 3:00pm.

The utility said most of the 35,000 West Australians who sweltered through the hottest Christmas Day on record without air conditioning had been reconnected.

It said crews had been working around the clock over the last few days to bring that number down.

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