The Hodge and Wright family children had a fun day in Cook Park on Sunday.

The sunny and partly cloudy weather is forecast to continue all week with top temperatures varying from 18 degrees on Tuesday to 12 degrees on Thursday.

Next weekend is set to be sunny with a top of 17 degrees both days but there is no rain forecast for the week.

The Bureau of Meteorology’s long range outlook doesn’t have a lot of rain it either.

It said October was likely be drier than average for central and western NSW,

All areas west of the Great Dividing Range in NSW are likely to drier than average for the rest of 2018.

However, there was the prospect of more rain for the coastal areas.

“The October to December outlook indicates current drought areas are unlikely to see significant respite in the coming three months,” it said.

“October to December is likely to be drier than average for large parts of Australia.”

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And it said there was only a 51 per cent chance of Orange equalling its median rainfall figure of 228 millimetres for the period.

Orange has had 55 millimetres of rain this month which is below the monthly average of 79.8 millimetres.