The average maximum temperature was 29.2°C, nearly 3°C above the average for the area over the last 20 years of 26.5°C, and the highest since 1998 when 30.5°C was the average top.

The hottest day in March 2015 was on Friday, March  20,  when the mercury climbed to 36.8°C, which made it the hottest March day in Mudgee in over 10 years.

The last time it was hotter than that was on March 19, 2004, when it reached 37.1°C, which is also the record for the third month of the year at the Mudgee Airport Weather Station.

Strangely,  the day with the hottest maximum temperature  of the month (March 20) was immediately followed by the lowest maximum temp when Saturday, March 21,  topped out at 23°C.

Nearly half of the days in the month (13 days) had a top temperature above 30°C.

The average minimum temp for March 2015 was 12.8°C, half a degree up on the average for the last 20 years.

There was a significant difference between the coldest overnight temperature for the month (3°C on Friday, March  27) and the warmest (18.7°C on Wednesday the 4th).

In terms of rainfall just 13.6mm was recorded,  making it the driest March in Mudgee since 2004 when just 4mm fell in the entire month.

The wettest day was the first, with 7mm recorded in the 24 hours to 9am on Monday the 2nd.

It was a big drop off for a month that tends to be fairly wet for the area and just a fraction of the 60.4mm average from the last 20 years.

It is even more noticeable when you take the last three Marches into account, when 97.2mm was recorded last year, 75.8mm in 2013, and a huge 144.4mm in 2012.

Weatherzone.com.au has predicted that April will get off to a wet start with showers forecast for the Easter weekend.