Newcastle was granted a slight reprieve from a scorching three-day heatwave blanketing much of the state on Friday afternoon. Temperatures plummeted under a cloudy turn blown by strong southwesterly winds ripping past Nobbys heads.
The Bureau of Meteorology's weather station at Nobbys measured gusts up to 70km/h in the late afternoon as State Emergency Service (SES) crews responded to nearly a dozen calls for assistance around the region.
