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Storms Slam NSW on Scorching Hot Day
Storms caused power outages to 75,000 properties and over 1,000 incidents reported, with emergency services expecting days of cleanup due to damaging winds and large hail.
- On Wednesday, the New South Wales State Emergency Service said severe storms swept the state, downing trees and powerlines with damaging winds, and Mr Clarke called it a "quite a ferocious, vicious storm."
- The Bureau of Meteorology said a cold front, upper-level trough, and unstable air mass caused severe thunderstorms, and Miriam Bradbury, BOM senior meteorologist, said, `Unfortunately, this summer weather for Australia, it has come in early and hard.`
- Emergency services freed and airlifted a man in his 20s with injuries at Orange, while a 76-year-old man was killed by a falling tree in Glenworth Valley on Wednesday.
- SES said it received more than 250 calls and responded to over 1,000 incidents as crews repaired the network where safe; areas were sealed off and gas services turned off at evacuated properties.
- The Bureau of Meteorology warned of warm conditions through Sunday, as 46 fires burn; total fire bans cover 11 RFS districts.
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