THE records keep tumbling during Bathurst’s year of weather extremes with another freezing night completing the coldest weekend on record for the region.
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The mercury stopped short of Saturday morning’s record low of -7.5 degrees Celsius but still plunged to -7 at 6.30am at the Bureau of Meteorology’s official weather station at Bathurst Airport.
Bathurst has now recorded 16 subzero mornings out of 23 for July this year – compared to just four subzero days for all of July last year.
The long dry is also rolling on across the region.
Light sleeting rain on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday barely made an impact on the region’s gauges, taking the monthly total to just 4.6mm, making a total rainfall of just 8.2mm across the region since the start of winter on June 1.
The bureau has now revised its seven-day forecast to predict “possible rain” on Wednesday, with a partly cloudy day on Thursday and possible showers on Friday and Saturday.
