Almost 21,000 homes and businesses are without power in the Old Bar and Forster-Tuncurry area following thunderstorms on Monday.
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Essential Energy says it is investigating the cause of the outage.
Thunderstorms are predicted for the Manning over the next three days.
The Bureau of Meteorology says a high pressure system lies over the Tasman Sea, while a trough stretches from central Australia through western NSW. This pattern will bring northerly winds to most coastal areas Monday and Tuesday. A trough is forecast to bring a fairly weak southerly change to southern and central waters mid-week, which should quickly decay as the Tasman high asserts its dominance.
Tuesday’s forecast maximum is 33 degrees Celsius and Wednesday’s is 35 degrees.
The storms are expected to clear by Thursday and the remainder of the week will be mostly sunny.
