Could be some highest min records gone by 9am. In Sydney and elsewhere. Unbelievable temps. Nobbys has equaled its record, dropping to 21.9 but now 23.9. Gosford over 26 at 2am mid Autumn. Not good sleeping weather for sure.

Update. Obs Hill itself won't be beating its record of 24.6 as it has been down to 23.6 . But the Airport may beat the record it broke only yesterday.
Currently around 26 at Cooranbong and indicative of what it feels like here in west side of Lake. Sitting on my verandah in a pair of boxer shorts having a cold drink. Neighbours up all over the place too.

Just heard Thunder outside a minute ago

Decent Storm just popped up suddenly on radar between Liverpool and Parramatta. Heading towards Sydney Airport (spanning from Sydney CBD to Port Hacking)

Looks like there could be some wind with this set of storms too.

Currently 26.2C at Sydney Airport.
Temperature on the way up since 3:30am

Even Camden is 24.5C now.
That's a heatwave compared to the 13C it got own to at 6am yesterday morning.
No more thunder heard since the first rumbles.
Looks like the storm is a fizzer

Airport won't be breaking its new record from yesterday.
If things dont dip between now and 9am, Gosford will have a new record and Norah Head as well. There is a 22.2 highest min at Rathmines, which is just south of Toronto from 1941.

Once this useless trough moves on it is going to be a messy day heat and wind wise. Prob worst as far as wind goes during this event.

The following Hunter obs sites broke their highest min records. Gosford (beat 2014).
Mangrove Mt (beat 1998)
Norah Head (beat 1980 and 2016). Nobbys record retained but only just..

Sun breaking thru. Windy

It's now sunny, pleasantly warm and windy, early cloud having cleared in the last hour or so.

OH, at 23.2, had its second warmest April night on record. The Airport just missed breaking yesterday's new record.

Temperatures have barely moved off the minimum but should shoot up now the Sun's out.

No rain here overnight.

Shoot up alright. Nearly 28 some places in Sydney. Bom might have thought cloud linger longer and have undercooked forecast.

Never seen an April day like this. Thats because its not an April day. It's more like a hot late August day

Mount Boyce is showing that the Blue Mountains are getting absolutely whipped, winds have been around 40km/h for the past 1.5 hours and the gusts are now touching 89km/h.

A grass fire has started about 5km WSW of me RFS has graded it a watch and act. This is what can happen when your area has had about 200mm over the last 6 months.

Could see the same fire at wattle grove right now. Looks like some pyrocumulus at the tops but not too sure.

It's alright though looking at the position of the fire and the Wind direction it won't bother any homes, but i'm worried about the arrival of the cold front whether the pyrocumulus will light up. Also the fire started a literal 2-3 min drive from the fire station so it will be well handled also adjacent is the army base.
Also looks like some Storm action for our hunter buddies, good for them.

These storms heading down from the NW might have damaging winds with them more then rain I think.hope not I hate strong winds.

I could see the smoke from Dural!!!! And yes Sidney, some pyro cumulous was visible from here as well.
Very warm and windy this afternoon. Snowing at Thredbo TS.

Basically the Western half of Hunter and adjacent areas.

EDIT: the smoke and pyrocumulus (behind the Bridge) feature in this screen shot:

Can see the smoke plumes south and storms north. Not a pleasant day at all. Hope homes are ok south and stormy and gringoes get some mms north...

It's now been pushed to an Emergency warning and some people that I know have been advised to evacuate looking nasty now, hopefully the wind stays its course but you never know with Pyrocumulus.

Moorbank Grass Fire is now on Emergency Warning status:

Yeah i was sent an emergency text at 3:51pm.