Frosty starts will be met with sunny days and top temperatures of 11 to start the week before the return to rainy days arrives on Wednesday.

There's a 90 per cent chance of rain on hump day, with up to 10mm predicted.

That trend will continue for the rest of the working week, before a top of just seven degrees and further rain on Saturday, with an 80 per cent chance of rain with a maximum amount of 5mm tipped to fall.

Orange's long-term average rainfall for July is a tick over 70mm.

It's been a really wet winter to date, with over 30mm of rain in July so far following 141mm in June. It's been our wettest winter in five years, when a monumental 367mm fell across June and July, 2016.

Last year we had 148mm in the first two months of winter.

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