Thousands of homes across Sydney are tonight without power following a severe thunderstorm. An extreme weather warning is in place for parts of Sydney, ...
The intense weather system brought damaging winds, rain and lightning, bringing down trees and causing sign...
[Sign up here](https://9.nine.com.au/Z8tJCf)to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox. Storm activity appears to have passed, and Sydneysiders can expect a partly cloudy day with a top of 27C. Trains have also resumed on the T1 North Shore Line from Gordon to Hornsby and the T9 Northern Line from Hornsby to Epping following multiple trees on the track.
More than 60000 homes and businesses were left without power and an international sailing tournament had to be cancelled after thunderstorms swept.
South Australia can expect to peak in the low forties over the weekend, increasing to mid-forties across western and central SA early in the week. Severe heatwave conditions are expected to increase in intensity across much of the state, expanding towards the west and south in the coming days and reaching extreme in the southeast by mid week. Western Australia still faces extreme and severe temperatures until Tuesday with maximums in the low to mid forties, and into the high forties in the far west Pilbara.
Wind gusts approached 50km/h in Sydney on Saturday night causing major damage at a sailing event, while at Sydney airport there were gusts up to 92km/h.
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More than 60000 homes and businesses were left without power and an international sailing tournament had to be...
Major energy suppliers Ausgrid and Endeavour reported more than 60,000 outages in Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Illawarra and Central Coast, with crews working through the night to restore power. NSW SES received almost 800 calls for assistance to 5am on Sunday, almost 700 of them in Sydney, as storms erupted across Greater Sydney, the Illawarra region and the state's central Tablelands. Fire and Rescue NSW said its officers attended the incident, helping with an evacuation of the site as paramedics tended to numerous people with minor injuries.