Approximately 7,700 people remain without power after the supercell storm that hit Sydney last night.

Ausgrid reported outages to at least 15,000 properties in the city’s east and north last night, with efforts to restore power continuing well into this morning.

Ausgrid are aiming to have everyone back up and running by 11am, spokesman John Hall told news.com.au this morning.

“We are still trying to restore power as safely and as quickly as possible,” said Mr Hall.

He also warned Sydneysiders to steer clear of “debris that could be hiding fallen power lines”.

Homes in Five Dock, Revesby, Panania, Chester Hill, Villawood and Old Guildford had their power restored just before midnight, while Ausgrid restored power to residents in West Ryde, Eastwood and Denistone at around 8am this morning.

Electricity was restored to 23,000 Endeavour Energy customers overnight, but 5,700 properties are still without supply (mainly in Parramatta and the Hills districts).

Last night’s wild weather left motorists trapped on flooded roads and more than 40,000 properties across the state without power.

The storms turned some intersections and roads in Parramatta, in the city’s west, into lakes, with several drivers needing SES help to get out of their cars.

The intense storms dumped 47 millimetres of rain on Guildford within 30 minutes, and a total of 61mm by the time the storm was over. Parramatta, Auburn and Baulkham Hills all received more than 1mm a minute for half-an-hour, the weather bureau said.

The SES had 589 jobs on its books by 9.30pm, mainly for leaky roofs and trees down.

Almost 500 of those were for the Sydney metro area, including 157 in Parramatta and neighbouring suburbs.

Sydney Olympic Park received 40mm in the 40 minutes to 7pm while 50mm fell at West Pennant Hills, 40mm at Peakhurst and 36mm at Chatswood.

Endeavour Energy warned the damage was so extensive that some of the 27,800 homes in western Sydney without power wouldn’t have it restored until this morning.

Some 250 electrical hazards had been reported since the storm hit, a spokesman said.

“Emergency crews are patrolling affected areas to make safe and switch around damaged parts of the network to safely restore power supply to as many customers as possible.”

Social media users are sharing footage of powerful gusts and torrential rain in the area:



We're stuck here until it stops #sydneystorm pic.twitter.com/881pIv7Z1a — G i G i (@gacd86) February 8, 2019



Just a car with a tree on it. Nothing to see here, keep going.. 🚒 #SydneyStorm pic.twitter.com/FDT338rpc8 — Freddie Faraj (@MrWild01) February 8, 2019

A severe thunderstorm warning for heavy rain, damaging winds and large hailstones remains in place for the Hunter but has been lifted for Sydney and Wollongong.

The power issues also affected the start of the AFLW match between GWS Giants and North Melbourne when two light towers at Drummoyne went out before the game’s scheduled start of 7.15pm.

The match, which got underway about 8pm, was further delayed when three light towers lost power during the second quarter.

Supercells storms could wreak havoc on south east Australia into tomorrow as a week of intense weather, with floods in the north and heat in the west, comes to a close.

In Queensland, the monsoonal rains are dying down but all that moisture is likely to mean much of the area will be flooded for “weeks to come” forecasters have said as the dumped water makes its way through the drainage basins.

Meanwhile, Tasmanians could experience some summertime snow this weekend as a cold front sweeps through.

Today's thunderstorm forecast. Severe storms likely to form in NE Vic this afternoon, with heavy rainfall the main concern. Keep an eye on the radar: https://t.co/5idYn8VfYt #VicWeather pic.twitter.com/3Kmjyugn4r — Bureau of Meteorology, Victoria (@BOM_Vic) February 8, 2019

⚡️Friday Thunderstorm Forecast⚡️ A trough will continue to move across #NSW with the chance of #thunderstorms over much of the state. Damaging #wind gusts, large #hail & heavy #rainfall possible about the southeast & central inland, likely over the southern ranges & slopes. pic.twitter.com/NZAb0GtwwV — Bureau of Meteorology, New South Wales (@BOM_NSW) February 7, 2019

It had been feared the supercells storms would combine three dangerous elements: damaging winds with heavy rain and hail.

“On Friday, the focus for thunderstorms is in southern and central NSW. The parts of NSW most likely for the (supercell) triple threat will be the Central Ranges and right across the south east and Canberra,” said Sky News Weather channel meteorologist Rob Sharpe.

A stormy Canberra was forecast to hit 30C today before heading into a sunny weekend in the mid-20s.

“A cool change will sweep up the south east on Saturday bringing showers and dropping temperatures remarkably. A southerly buster will likely to push through Sydney in the evening,” said Mr Sharpe.

As the weekend progresses those storms could head up towards northern parts of the state.

OTHER STATES

In Melbourne it will be a mild weekend. There will be some rain with a maximum of 25C on Saturday and just 21C on Sunday.

Head down to Tasmania and its positively wintry, said Mr Sharpe.

“In Tasmania, cold weather is starting to envelop the state with snow likely in elevated areas”.

It’ll be just 17C in Hobart on Saturday rising to 23C on Sunday.

Adelaide is currently having a break, a far cry from its many scorching January days, and that will continue through the weekend with the mercury in the mid-20s on partly cloudy days.

“In the west, the heat is lingering with gusty easterly winds and on Saturday it will be even hotter. A tropical change will sweep through on Monday dropping the temperatures.”

For Perth that means 35C on Friday, rising to 38C on Saturday and not much different on Sunday. But Monday could be a more reasonable 29C.

Stormy in Darwin and 33C with a possible downpour.

Over in northern Queensland, the monsoon will finally exit stage right, said Mr Sharpe.

“The system that has been driving all the rain will moving out into the Coral Sea on Friday and on Saturday morning it will be far way enough to just be the odd shower across the coast.”

Nevertheless, some areas of the Queensland coast still pick up 50mm or so of rain in the remaining drenching.

“There will be water covering the landscape for weeks to come,” he said.

A few showers could fall on Brisbane this week. Nothing like what’s been happening further north in the state though. The city is likely to see temperatures around 32C for the next few days.