Proving just how scattered the falls have been, at Tabbita local farmer Scott Vaessen had 20mm in his rain gauge, while vice president of the Griffith branch of NSW Farmers’ Association Tom Condon, whose farm is located at Yenda, only received around 3mm.

Mr Vaessen has 5200 acres of mixed crops planted and is understandably happy with the downpour.

“It’s pretty bloody good,” he said.

“On the back of the moisture profile we’ve had this puts us in a fortunate position.

“Every little bit helps because we are building on such a deficit on then last few years.”

Mr Condon said he hopes the weather forecast for light patchy rain is wrong.

“They’ve been wrong in the past ... so lets hope they are wrong this time too because we do need a lot of rain,” he said.

“I’d say we need about 25mm to 30mm ... and then some follow up a bit late on.

“We don’t knock even the light falls back because at least it keeps alive the plants that are there.”

Mike De Salis, climate technical officer NSW Climate Services Centre Bureau of Meteorology Sydney, says Griffith has only had 12mm so far this month.

“The average for June is 33mm so we have a fair way to go yet,” he said. “The wettest place in your general area was 11mm last night (Monday) at Hillston with a total of 19mm since June 1.

“Light rain is expected to clear Tuesday with further light and patchy rain expected Wednesday.

“It should be fine Thursday with showers Friday. The computer models are predicting not much more than 10mm of rain for Griffith over the next seven days.”