Weather: The week ahead

COOLER than average temperatures and fairly gentle wind conditions this week in the Upper Hunter, as the weather warnings ease off from last week.

Temperatures will be five degrees below average throughout and chill mornings are expected.

A south easterly flow will make its way from the coast to the Hunter on Thursday and light showers are expected to reach Scone on Friday.

Slightly heavier rainfall to move over the weekend however, not a huge amount of rain predicted with only three to four millimetres expected to fall across the shire.

The Glenbawn Dam is currently at  46.9 percent capacity.

A maximum temperature of  30 today in Scone.

Predicted temperatures in Scone:

• Tuesday: 12-25
• Wednesday: 9-28
• Thursday: 11-31
• Friday: 13-21
• Saturday: 11-22
• Sunday: 10-22