I was a touch surprised today to see the storms, I got to Mascot about 2pm and got onto a roof to see some nice cloud structure around but away in the distance. I later had a message from a friend who was at Stanwell Tops mentioning a big hail dump there. Probably from the storm I will include the photo of from the Mascot roof (taken on the phone as the camera was back in the car, didn't think I would need it).
Some light rain here at Rydalmere before I got home, and I got to see a bit of lightning in the distance from the storm cell up north of me as I was driving between 3-4pm. All really quick flashes though, not strobing so even if I had been close with the camera and lightning trigger wouldn't have caught anything.
Bilpin in the Blue Mts copped some hail from the news reports, and I thought the bureau might have issued some warnings given the heavy back cores both in the cells near Dural (that Jimmy caught) and also one near Maitland about 4pm.
Anyway, the photo attached is about 2:30pm looking south from Mascot. Some nice structure for this early in the season.