WILD winds battered the Hunter on the weekend, but calmer weather is set to sweep in this week.
It was a blustery day on Sunday, with the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) weather station at Nobbys in Newcastle recording wind gusts of more than 90 kilometres per hour.
NSW State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers responded to three calls for help after reports of trees falling in the wind in the Lake Macquarie area.
A wind gust of 91 kilometres per hour was clocked at Nobbys at about 3.30pm on September 15.
A severe weather warning from the BOM remained in place at 5pm on Sunday, with damaging winds expected to continue along the Hunter coast for the next few hours.
An SES spokesperson said the winds were expected to ease by Sunday night.
The Hunter was also under a heavy surf warning. Some localised damage and coastal erosion was possible along the coast south of Seal Rocks on Sunday, the BOM said.
Damaging surf conditions were expected to ease in the early hours of Monday morning, but locals were warned that beach activities could remain dangerous.
Grey clouds hovered over Newcastle during the day on Sunday but had only dumped about two millimetres of rain by 4.30pm, according to the BOM station at Nobbys.
It was also a bit colder in Newcastle than it has been lately, with a top of 15.2 degrees at about 12.30pm.
The forecast for Newcastle on Monday was mostly sunny with a top of 21 degrees, and it was similar on Tuesday. Wednesday was expected to be sunny with a top of 26 degrees, before the wind returns on Thursday.
