There's a warning in place on Monday evening with hail stones, heavy rainfall and damaging winds a chance for large parts of the Central Tablelands, including Orange.

As for Tuesday, up to 8 millimetres is predicted to fall around the city, which will add to what has been a promising start rainfall-wise to 2020.

Orange endured one of the hottest, and driest, starts to the summer on record with a scorching December and just 15mm of rain in the gauge throughout the final month of 2019.

There was a run of 26 days in December with no rain at all, and the landscape showed it.

Barren, dry paddocks punctuated the city, but after 132.8mm at the Orange Airport in January - most areas recorded nearer to 50mm - and another 20mm to date in February, those same bone dry paddocks are suddenly turning green again.

The city will reach a top of 28 degrees on Tuesday, before a maximum of 22, 23 and then 25 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to round out the working week, with cool and partly cloudy conditions in the lead-up to Friday night's markets at Robertson Park.

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