Orange is finally drying out after the city was soaked with 105 millimetres of rain in three days this week.
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It increased the level of Suma Park Dam by five per cent within one 24 hour period.
Even the kangaroos at Bloomfield Hospital were ready for a break with Orange recording its wettest March since 1956.
As of Wednesday the Orange Airport weather station showed 197.6 millimetres had fallen, which is nearly three times the monthly average.
However with sunny days and low chances of rain forecast for the last seven days of the month the 1956 record of 271 millimetres is looking pretty safe.
The big wet has been valuable in boosting Orange's water supply.
Water was pouring over the spillways at Spring Creek Dam, and the non-water supply connected Lake Canobolas, this week.
As of noon on Wednesday 202 millimetres had poured over the full Spring Creek Dam with much of it heading toward Suma Park Dam.
Suma Park was 58.28 per cent full on Wednesday, up from 52.47 per cent last Friday.
The combined water storage capacity for the city was 66.19 per cent on Wednesday, up from 61.47 per cent last Friday.
Road closures around the south of Orange due to floods remained in force on Wednesday.
They included: Ginns Road between Huntley Road and Forest Road, Hiney Road between Huntley and Forest Road, Selwood Lane between Cadia Road and Forest Road and Lone Pine South between Huntley and Dairy Creek Road.
The Bells Line of Road is still blocked to traffic following landslides near Mount Tomah that also brought down large trees and at Kurrajong Hills.
The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting cloudy and even sunny days with top temperatures of about 18-19 degrees for the rest of the month.
Little rainfall is forecast for the next seven days.
Meanwhile, water has also been restored to houses near a water main that burst on Woodward Street on Tuesday afternoon.
An Orange City Council spokesman said water was back on by 7pm.
A QantasLink flight to Orange was cancelled on Tuesday.
However, no further flights have been affected by the wet and cloudy weather.
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