Throughout the night, a vigorous front moved over western NSW bringing heavy rain and widespread thunderstorms, a weather set-up more characteristic of spring. This is the same front that swept through Victoria yesterday and which caused severe thunderstorms with hail and flash flooding in Melbourne. The thunderstorms moved fairly quickly affecting the Southern Tablelands, Central West Slopes and Plains, South West Slopes, Snowy Mountains, ACT and parts of the Central Tablelands and the Riverina. Luckily, winds were not as strong as in the Garden State, with Murrurundi Gap registering up to 87km/h and 76km/h at Narrabri Airport, both just after 5am this morning. The strong northerly winds and high cloud ahead of this system managed to keep overnight temperatures relatively warm over northeastern NSW. Most of the northeastern half of the state had its warmest night since April and early May heralding a transition to more spring time temperatures. Mungindi in the North West Slopes and Plains only dropped to 19 degrees, while Scone only dropped to 16 degrees this morning. The heaviest rain occurred over the Snowy Mountains with Thredbo topping the chart with 54mm to 9 am this morning, closely followed by Perisher with 49mm. Widespread 10-25mm occurred over the central and southern ranges and adjacent western plains. The 22.6mm to 9am in Canberra made it the capital wettest day since early April. A few showers will continue to linger over the Mid North Coast and the Northern Rivers but these should clear early this evening as the front moves into QLD. A ridge of high pressure will then bring settled weather conditions and light winds across most of NSW until at least late Sunday.