Last month Mudgee experienced its driest April in 14 years receiving less than one sixth the rainfall of the same month last year.
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Only 1.8mm of rain was recorded for the entire month, to find a drier April in Mudgee you would have to go back to 1999 when no rain fell at all.
It rained on two days in April 2013, Monday, April 8, was the wettest day with 1.4mm recorded and 0.4mm fell on Tuesday, April 16.
The April average from 1995 to 2012 is 36.4mm, over twenty times what was recorded last month.
In terms of temperature the average maximum of 23.8°C was 1°C up on the 1991-2012 April average.
The hottest that Mudgee got during the month was 28.9°C on Monday, April 15.
The average minimum temperature of 5.9°C is 1.6°C lower than the 1991-2012 April average.
The lowest that the mercury dropped to during the month was -0.2°C on Thursday, April 25.
In a sign that winter is on its way, there was only five days when the minimum temperatures were in double digits.
And for the last week every bottom temp was below 3.1°C.