IT'S been a wet and cold start to winter for Junee with the Riverina township recording its lowest temperatures of the year and almost double its average rainfall for June.
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Over the past four weeks, the rural community has sat through 16 days of wet weather with 94mm of rain falling in the gauge, 80mm of which fell over a consecutive four-day period from June 16 to June 19.
Despite falling short of equaling the wettest June on record of 138.8mm back in 1991, the drenching almost doubled the town's average June rainfall of 50.1mm and takes the total amount of rain recorded in Junee so far this year to 286.2mm.
However, the ground remains slightly drier than what it was this time last year, with 308.2mm recorded during the same first six months of 2014.
Coinciding with the rain, the first month of winter also brought the lowers temperatures recorded so far this year, with frosty , bone-chilling mornings backed up with mostly cool, crisp days.
The mercury plummeted below zero degrees eight times during the 30-day month, but it was the morning of Thursday June 4 that had everybody shivering when temps dropped to a freezing -2.9C, more than six degrees below the average minimum recorded this time of year.
But the early starts weren't the only hurdle - the days also struggled to heat up, with temperatures maxing out at 17C only twice during the month.
On Sunday last week, top temperatures remained below 10C, reaching a high of just 9.2.
The Bureau of Meteorology says there's plenty more winter weather on the way, with the first weekend of July set to be a cold and sunny one with the high chance of widespread, severe frosts.
The mercury is tipped to dip below freezing each morning for at least the next three days, with maximum temperatures set to struggle to reach 12C.
Forecast
- Today: 2 to 11°, drizzle
- Tomorrow: -2 to 11°, frost then sunny
- Saturday: -2 to 11°, sunny