Sydney residents can expect to wake up on Wednesday with another cold morning and bad winds, with a severe weather warning for a third day.
Across the Sydney basin, temperatures will reach lows of around six degrees and highs of 15 degrees, with gusts of up to 90 kilometers per hour.
Chole takes advantage of windy weather at Bondi’s Marks Park on Tuesday. Credit: Brook Mitchell
Meteorologist James Taylor of the Bureau of Meteorology said “another trough is moving through the Bass Strait,” causing cold conditions.
Parts of NSW shook on Monday due to freezing winds of more than 100km / h, with little rest on Tuesday, despite the cold front shifting to the shores of the Tasman Sea.
On Monday evening, wind gusts reached 148 km / h on Lord Howe Island, 128 km / h on Murrurundi and 109 km / h on Scone.
Severe weather warnings are maintained statewide, with a deep low pressure system set up to carry “vigorous” winds and wild weather throughout the week.
Thousands of homes were left without electricity across the state. Ausgrid reported that 2,148 homes in Sydney were still affected by 48 unplanned outages as of 13:16 on Tuesday. Lindfield, Lane Cove and Berowra, north of Sydney, suffered the weight of the storm in the city.
State emergency services reported that the hardest hit areas were in the north of the state, stretching from Hunter to Armidale, Tamworth and New England.
Alpine regions reported a 15 to 20-centimeter snowfall on Tuesday morning, with more snow and snowstorms forecast to continue.