Just when we were all thinking Sydney's storm season was at an end, along comes a nice short wave trough and a southerly to kick off one last round.

Storms formed late in the morning over the Tablelands before some large bases emerged over the Hornsby area in the warm humid conditions. The southerly seemed to hit this line around 1pm and the storms really took off in size and structure.

Unfortunately yours truly was participating in a soccer game so could not get any photos until half time. By this time the line had developed well and truly to the north of Sydney towards Gosford. Photo is from Hornsby Heights looking towards the Gosford cell. Note the nice lean to the cumulus towers indicating good vertical wind shear.

Our good friend and SSC founder Matthew Smith had a big day on Saturday. A very nice photographic storm formed about 5km away from where he was. Did I mention that he was getting married at the time...

Matt married Leanne at 3.30pm on Saturday. Fellow SSC'ers me (dann) and James along with defacto SSC'er Macca were part of the bridal party. We were having a superday when this storm blew up only a few kilometres away from where we were, having photos taken. Ironically we were without our cameras.

The storm had some pretty rapid inflow, which we observed for a good 50minutes at our location. We also saw pretty consistent rotation of the lower levels over the same period. As we left Parramatta lakes we were treated to this superb backend structure. (more here)

Headed up the mountains and watched a severe storm dump an amazing amount of rain and hail around Bilpin this afternoon. A number of cells kept back building over the area until a larger dominant cell developed overhead and pushed the storm across to the Central Coast early evening. Hail Drifts up to half a foot, flash flooding and some larger hail stones up to 3cm punded the region for around 30 minutes starting just after 3pm.

More images here 

Well sometimes the big days are the worst to chase. Way back in December - Matt and I traversed this epic state in search of the ultimate storm chase.Friday 21st December looked nigh perfect for storms of the variety that chasers dream about. Their was ton's of moisture over NSW, very unstable atmosphere, loads of windshear in the lower levels and drier cold air in the uppers.

However after 6 hours of driving to our target area, we found ourselves rained in, only about 50km away from where a suspected tornado touched down. However in the torrential rain that slapped up around at Ranking Springs, we really couldn't get anywhere in a hurry. We busted out.

However it seems some other holiday makers didn't. As the Males family was making its way to Broken Hill they encountered some very red storms, in the late afternoon near Ivanhoe. The selection of shots was taken with a mobile phone, but gives a tremendous experience of this red storm engulfing them on a lonely NSW highway.