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The Bureau of Meteorology casts its net as wide into the future as possible in its Climate Outlook Overviews, and that means three months.
The latest review, from early October, said the remainder of the year "is likely to see above average rainfall across the eastern two thirds of the country".
It also predicts that nights from October to December "are very likely to be warmer than average across much of Australia".
The forecast for Orange this week suggests the temperatures will sit in the mid-to-high teens, with tops of 18C for Thursday, Sunday and Monday.
Wednesday and Thursday are likely to see rainfall.
The BoM currently takes weather temperature readings at Orange Agricultural Institute, where it has done so since 1976, and Orange Airport, where it began readings in 1996.
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The highest reading at the agricultural institute was 39.2C on February 11, 2017.
Its November top is 36C (November 23, 2014), while the highest December temperature recorded is 35C (December 10, 2019), and the highest January temperature 37.3C on January 16, 2019.
The November peak is 37.9C (November 23, 2014); the December top is 38.9C (December 21, 2019); and the highest temperature recorded in January is 38.6C on January 5 this year.
From 1957 to 1975, before the BoM began collecting figures at Orange Agricultural Institute and the airport, readings were taken in Hill Street, Molong.
The BoM's records show that on January 3, 1973, a peak of 42.3C was recorded.
The peak for a December day was 40.3C (December 30, 1965) and for a February day was 40C (February 1, 1968).
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