After what has felt like years for us living in northern Sydney, the storm drought finally broke this afternoon.

After months of sitting and hoping for a storm to move through the basin, today the combination of a trough and stronger mid level winds helped ease our pain.

All afternoon storms had been brewing over the Blue Mountains and to be honest I started to think that things were not going to make it off the mountains. How wrong I was.

At around 2pm I noticed Anvils streaming across the sky and the sky darkening to the west. I decided to head out to a lookout at Dural and on the way was pleasantly surprised by the Mammatus in the anvil overhead.

For over the next hour I watched the storm and accompanying shelf cloud march towards me with the occasional strike of lightning preceding the march.

As I was about to be engulfed by Heavy rain and wind I noticed that a dark base area had formed to my north in front of the main line.

I headed back to Galston and watched as the base let loose all its energy onto the small village. Some very nice Cg's hit all round the village before heading off towards Hornsby. A nice way to break the drought.