Another stormy afternoon ahead for much of Sydney. Photo: Getty Images

Gusty winds buffeted parts of Sydney late on Tuesday as a band of dry thunderstorms moved across parts of eastern NSW.

Wind speeds reached almost 80 km/h at Sydney Airport just after 5pm.

The Bureau of Meteorology cancelled an earlier severe thunderstorm warning for damaging winds issued for a swathe of inland NSW north-west of Mudgee.

Weatherzone: Sydney radar

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Unlike the storms that hammered the city for most days during the first week of December, Tuesday's fast-moving cells brought little if any rain.

"These are mid-level thunderstorms so the main threats from them are wind gusts," Dmitriy Danchuk, a duty forecaster at the bureau, said. "Most of these storms will be seen as dry thunderstorms."

The bureau has issued a strong wind warning for Sydney's closed waters, the Sydney, Illawarra and Hunter coasts, among other regions.