The Royal Hotel in Lyndhurst may be a great watering hole, it also seems to be the place where all the water likes to fall.
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The hotel boasted and posted on Facebook that their rain gauge recorded a massive 107 millimetres of rain on Sunday night, a downpour that nearly doubles the 58mm that the town experienced in November.
The town was certainly the epicentre of the storm with properties in nearby Mandurama recording between 58 and 68 millimetres.
The rain though has caused some damage with reports of homes and sheds being inundated by the sudden flows.
WATCH AS TORRENTIAL RAIN CAUSES FLOODING NEAR LYNDHURST
The torrential rain has caused minor flooding along the Belubula River at Canowindra.
The Belubula River at Canowindra is likely to peak near 4.20 metres around midday Monday with minor flooding.
In Blayney though the gauges have measured only 8mm, which will at least help to keep our blossoming lawns going.
While officially, Orange received just 3.4mm of rain at the airport, other parts of the city recorded up to 9mm.
Around the west, Parkes (24mm), Bathurst (7.6mm) Lithgow (6.6mm), Dubbo (5.4mm) and Mudgee (1.6mm) enjoyed some rain to end the weekend.
More rain is expected to fall over the course of the next seven days, with Sunday likely to be Orange's wettest day with the bureau predicting a 90 per cent chance of rain, with as much as 20mm a possibility.
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