A WILD storm has swept across the Bathurst region this afternoon, bringing down trees, leaving homes and businesses without power and blacking out traffic lights in the CBD.
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A tree has come down on a car near the entrance to Simplot on Durham Street and shops in Bathurst's CBD have also been blacked out.
Essential Energy is reporting widespread outages across the Central West with more than 1100 Bathurst customers believed to be impacted.
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The Bureau of Meteorology reported wind gusts of more than 80km/h as the storm's peak about 5.45pm and the temperature quickly dropped more than 10 degrees Celsius from 36.3 at 5pm to 25.1 at 5.50pm.
The storm has brought only isolated showers so far.
For emergency help in a storm, ring the SES (NSW and ACT) on 132 500.
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