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Here my closest weather station at Olympic Park went down to 31.0 at 10pm, now showing 32.6 since the hot northerly wind fired up. I suspect the forecast minimum of 23 at Parramatta is unlikely unless the southerly forecast for dawn drops things quite late in the overnight period.

We had storms that didn't really cool it down, now a hot wind change. Glad the aircon is on feeding the bedroom!

Welcome canoncloud. I'm not professional or that experienced but looking at the charts I would guess Sydney area has a slight chance of storms or maybe stuff forming west of the ranges later in the afternoon towards Bathurst. But it doesn't look that promising.

Check out http://forecasts.bsch.au.com/stormcast.html

Where the high lifted index and CAPE forecasts are will probably be where the storms will fire up if they do. There are many other factors that come into it like humidity, but looking at tomorrow's readings while we may get storms they are unlikely to be big ones (hail, good structure etc). Happy to be corrected by the more experienced chasers here though.

[Hundreds rescued from UK floods - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)]

Hundreds rescued from UK floods - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
     

In north England a search is under way for a missing policeman believed to have been swept away in rising floodwaters.
   

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/20/2749387.htm
     

Hi guys, this is my first post on here, and it looks quite more informative than weatherzone.

Anyway, I am not a professional forecaster, but i rang one today. 5.95 a minute for him to tell me to go to goulburn / canberra, to the ranges. Thats where the action was at. Unfortunatley no. It wasnt at all. It was right where i live, in Helensburgh. So i missed it.

Structure was ok at Taralga but after 370 kms, I have been left extremely disapointed. The convective outlook for today also looked promising, But i think someone is just showing off their colouring in skills with their red pen.

So, apparently tomorrow there is meant to be thunderstorms, and I am putting it to you guys...

Is it at all possible you could forecast where to go tomorrow?

Cheers guys...

Troy that does look rather like a nice leader coming up in front of the car not that far away from where you were standing!

I had to leave Chatswood just as the storms rolled through and head to Artarmon then Kogarah. A bit of a display with some nice strikes in the Chatswood region as well as down towards the city as I went through there. Later at Newington and near home were a couple of nice bolts as well about 6:20pm.

One home at Castle Cove was destroyed by fire after a direct strike as well - see

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/20/2749303.htm

[Lightning sparks new blazes]

Lightning sparks new blazes


Lightning, fires and wild storms continue to wreak havoc across parts of Australia.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/20/2749303.htm

Wow Troy great captures!!! If I'm not mistaken is that a really fine tendril of lightning between you and that dark blue car? If it is that child and you for that matter are quite lucky you didn't feel the effects. Hope you were wearing your brown undies today 

[Foolhardy decision led to truckies' deaths]

Foolhardy decision led to truckies' deaths


WA's Coroner says the decision to allow a group of vehicles onto the highway ahead of a firestorm forecast was "foolhardy in the extreme".


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/20/2749104.htm

[Heat reaches Western Sydney 20/11/2009]

Heat reaches Western Sydney 20/11/2009

The cool change is now starting to be felt across Southern New South Wales with a significant band of cloud, some showers / rain / storms and dust storms as observed by Kristy. It will be cooler there tomorrow.

At Albury Airport, the peak temperature was 37.9C at 2 pm. However further north, it reached 40.8C at Wagga Wagga at 12.53 pm (Source BOM Weather Station data 20/11/09). Further north and away from southern New South Wales, high temperatures continued again and it was still 41C at Dubbo in Central West New South Wales near 6 pm.

The heat arrived into Western Sydney with Blacktown reaching 40.6C prior to the mid afternoon thunderstorm, Liverpool 41.4C, Parramatta 39.2C and Penrith 42.1C. Hence this was the first 40C day for the season for western Sydney. It was cooler on the coastal fringe.

Saturday will still be warm for Western Sydney with one more hot day forecast for Sunday for Sydney before an end to the current warm spell.

Harley Pearman

[Sydney thunderstorm 20 November 2009]

Sydney thunderstorm 20 November 2009

I took the photos below from the roof of the car park in Newton Road Blacktown. The storm was high based but dropped very little rain where I was. Although Prospect to the south had 7.4 mm of rain.

The storm was lightning active and reading the news it appears that a number of fires may have been started across portions of the Blue Mountains in Sydney's west.

Temperatures reached 40C to 42C in Sydney's West including Blacktown, Liverpool, Penrith and Richmond prior to the event.

Looking at the weather stations across Sydney, Penrith in Sydney's far west had a wind gust of 94 km/h at 2.02 pm with no rain and again at 2.10 pm. Liverpool had 2 mm of rain.

Troy, the lightning photos you took are impressive and the first one appears to show the white building being struck or very close to the strike. It seems to be very close to you.

Harley Pearman