Severe thunderstorms tore through western Sydney overnight from Tuesday, November 3 into Wednesday, November 4. The Blacktown State Emergency Service unit received more than 50 calls for assistance, with trees felled onto homes, vehicles and powerlines and structural damage confirmed to several properties.
The NSW SES had issued a severe thunderstorm warning on Tuesday night covering eastern NSW from north of Moree, east to Coffs Harbour and as far south as Wollongong. Storms continued into Wednesday, with the Bureau of Meteorology issuing fresh severe thunderstorm warnings for NSW’s southern inland and southwest slopes — including Wagga Wagga, Tumbarumba, Cowra and Blayney — and a 91 km/h wind gust recorded at Cowra Airport on Wednesday evening.
The Bureau identifies this period as the opening phase of eastern Australia’s severe thunderstorm season, which runs through at least February 2027. As of November 4, the Insurance Council of Australia had not declared the Sydney storms a catastrophe or significant event.
Meanwhile in the north, the thermometer told a different story. Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley hit 45.1°C on Tuesday — the first time since February 2026 that any location in Western Australia reached 45°C — while the Pilbara mining town of Telfer reached 43.6°C. Temperatures in the 30s to mid-40s are expected to continue across the north until Friday.
Heatwave warnings are in force across the top of the country: extreme heatwave for the Kimberley and North Interior (WA) through November 6–7, severe for the Pilbara, extreme for the Tiwi Islands and severe for much of the Top End and Gulf region (NT) through November 7, and severe for much of northern Queensland through November 7.
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