The past four weeks have been pretty active on the weather front for the Harbour city, copping yet another belting yesterday afternoon. Yesterday, severe storms sparked across the Central and Southern Tablelands, with a line of storms extending 500km from about Nyngan to Ulladulla, just after lunch time. Hail of 2cm in diameter was reported at Dubbo just before 2pm with winds of up to 106km/h recorded at Moss Vale. Cloud ahead of the front allowed temperatures to drop in western Sydney in the early afternoon after a high of 29 degrees in Penrith. By 2pm, when storms began to roll over the western suburbs, Penrith had cooled to about 25 degrees. Showers and thunderstorms then spread east, dropping the temperature to 13 degrees in just over an hour. Penrith itself had reports of pea-size hail with these storms. Flash floods occurred in western Sydney where Penrith received 30mm, with 27mm at Horsley Park and Ingleburn. As the storms marched east, they managed to lose some of their moisture, with falls ranging from 10-20mm in the inner west and only 2mm in the city. Some parts of the city even reported golf-ball size hail. There was plenty of lightning and strong winds with about 6,000 strikes within an hour and winds of up to 76km/h in Kurnell and 80km/h in Richmond. Finally, storms cleared the city in the early evening, with a fresh southerly change moving over the city early this morning. These winds brought some low cloud and light rain to the eastern suburbs and the northern beaches this morning. Wind will gradually turn south-easterly today, allowing cloud to lift and even sunshine to poke through. Over the next few days, cloud will burn off leading to a slight warming trend before another front brings more showers and some cooling on Sunday.