CASTERTON has already breezed past its June rainfall average, while the month has slightly warmed up in recent days.

The latest Bureau of Meteorology data shows a total of 84.2 millimetres recorded in the town at the time of going to print, compared to an historical average of 65.8mm.

The figure has also nearly passed the average for July, historically Casterton’s wettest month at 86.2 mm.

Casterton has yet to see a wetter day since Sunday, 5 June, when the town recorded 27.8 millimetres – nearly a third of the month’s total rainfall so far.

Temperatures are on the rise deeper into the winter season, with a high of 15.3 degrees recorded on Friday, 17 June.

Four of the last six days before Sunday, 19 June passed the month’s historical average maximum of 13.7 degrees and are the only days this month to have done so.

Last Thursday, 16 June, temperatures did not go below 10 degrees.

However, the weekend saw much colder mornings compared to previous days, with lows of 2.2 and 3.3 recorded on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

Winds have been calmer than they were earlier in the month – Friday saw maximum wind gusts of just 19 kilometres per hour.

The fastest gusts reached 61 kilometres per hour back in the first week of the month.