A severe weather warning has been issued for Sydney and its surrounds after a sweltering Australia Day saw the mercury soar to 31C. The The Bureau of Meteorology said storms could bring heavy rain, damaging wind gusts and large hail. 9News
A severe weather warning has been issued for Sydney and its surrounds after a sweltering Australia Day saw the mercury soar to 31C.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued the alert just before 3:00pm, warning parts of the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Sydney, Gosford, Wyong and Wollondilly, Wingecarribee areas could be hit with severe storms.Two Western Australian building firms collapse"The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 2:40 pm, severe thunderstorms were detected on the weather radar near St Marys, Warragamba, the Glen Davis/Newnes district and Cranebrook. These thunderstorms are moving towards the east.
"A combination of fork and sheet lightning lit up the skies for what seemed like hours across the entire Sydney basin and locations much further afield," Weatherzone said. "As many as 133,000 lightning strikes or thereabouts were recorded within a 100km radius of Blacktown in Sydney's west."
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