Central Coast weather: moderate rain recorded across region

Much needed rain has fallen across the region in the last 24 hours providing relief for parks and gardens. However dam levels are not far from the trigger point for water restrictions.

Coasties will need their brollies this week.

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Central Coast total dam water supply is at just over 55 per cent with reasonable rain continuing to fall across the region.

Gosford recorded more than 70mm of rain from Sunday afternoon to early Monday morning, with 62mm at Mangrove Mountain and 47mm at Norah Head for the same period.

Showers are expected to continue to fall until the weekend but the totals are forecast to be relatively small.

Gosford recorded the heaviest rainfall over the last 24 hours.

Despite the rain, the trend in the water supply levels has been all down for since April 2017 when dams were more than 75 per cent full.

By June 2017 they had dipped to 74.58 and within a year were down to 61.62 per cent.

In June this year they are recorded as 55.45 per cent and drop of almost 20 per cent over the period.

However, the figures are still a long way from the frightening low in February 2007 when total storage was at 11.19 per cent. The situation was only really remedied when a devastating east coast low hit the area on the June long weekend in 2007 causing widespread flooding.

Central coast water storage is at just over 55 per cent.

Long range weather outlooks from the Bureau of Meteorology predict a drier than average three months for much of Australia. Chances of a drier July to September are highest across southwest and southeast Australia where chances of a drier three months are higher than 75%.

July is likely to be drier than average for much of southern WA, southeast SA, eastern Tasmania, and much of the eastern mainland extending from Victoria up eastern NSW and into southern Queensland.