BATHURST'S temperature fell 14 degrees in two hours as a storm came through on Monday afternoon.
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The city had reached 30 degrees at 3pm - the second of two days in a row that had reached 30 - before wet weather swept in from the west.
It took Bathurst's temperature to 25 degrees at 4pm and then to just under 17 degrees at 5pm, which had risen a smidgen to almost 18 degrees by 6pm.
With mild weather forecast for the rest of the week, Bathurst's hottest day of this December is set to remain the first day of the month, when the city reached 36.8 degrees.
An almost full Chifley Dam, meanwhile, is a far cry from the situation in Bathurst in late 2019 and early 2020, when the Macquarie had stopped flowing downriver of the city.
