It’s all theoretical though, with a fault with the Bureau of Meteorology’s weather station at Mudgee Airport experiencing a fault meaning no rain has been recorded there since Thursday morning.

In the 24 hour period ending 9am Wednesday 72mm was recorded, another 1.4mm was added on Thursday morning, but the heavy showers overnight to Friday morning went unrecorded.

Mudgee received a total of 81.2mm from across the entire summer; December (29.2mm), January (42.4mm), February (9.6mm).

All three of the months received significantly less than their average rainfall, in the case of February it was nearly 70mm less than what is normal.

All of which saw a remarkable turnaround in the Mudgee area in just over a month.

On the weekend of February 11-12 the local Fire Danger signs were set to the highest possible alert level, ‘Catastrophic’, due to dry conditions across the region and the record 43-plus°C.

Fast forward to last week and 70-plus millimetres across three days, not to mention the close to 20mm earlier in March, saw the region soaked.

The Gulgong Road bushfire danger rating sign (pictured) almost had water lapping at the base of it on Friday.

According to Weatherzone.com.au the showers and thunderstorms that affected multiple states and territories during the week were caused by a series of low pressure troughs that lingered over Australia.

Rain and thunderstorms were widespread across New South Wales on Monday and Tuesday morning, the heaviest falls in the state's northeast and southeast.

The big wet night saw the Mudgee State Emergency Service busy with eight requests for assistance and one flood rescue.

The majority of jobs were for flash flooding near stormwater drains and leaking roofs due to build up in gutters.

Mid Western Regional Council had to close the Mudgee Pool and Lawson Park due to flooding and a power outage, along with the local sporting grounds.

The March average of 60.4mm had been washed away by Tuesday night.