The Port Macquarie-Hastings region is set to experience a wetter and warmer spring period according to predictions by weather bureaus.
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The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a La Nina event to alert level for the east coast, where there is a 70 per cent the Mid North Coast is in for wetter than average spring.
The Bureau's manager of climate operations, Dr Andrew Watkins, said La Nina typically results in above-average winter-spring rainfall for Australia, particularly across most of the eastern, central and northern regions.
Weatherzone meteorologist Joel Pippard said while the start of spring is expected to be fairly dry, residents can expect to see more rainfall in the October and November months.
"La Nina typically brings wetter and cloudier conditions," he said.
"Particularly for the east coast, including Port Macquarie, you tend to get fairly average to slightly below average daily temperatures but you get well above average temperatures at night."
However, he said the rainfall might be patchy which will result in some areas receiving more of the wet stuff from the sky than other locations.
Mr Pippard said November is the month where thunderstorms typically occur, bringing widespread rainfall with the weather event.
Weatherzone has also recorded big fluctuations in temperatures within spring months.
Mr Pippard said it's normal to experience cool daily temperatures and for the next day to be hit with a big jump to warm weather.
Meanwhile August in the Port Macquarie-Hastings was drier than average, with 30mm of rainfall recorded for the month in contrast to the average amount of 71.1mm.
Rainfall for the three months of winter was recorded as 270.8mm, coming close to hitting the average amount of 277.6mm.
The last significant La Nina event was in 2010-11, which was the Australia's wettest two-year period on record beating the previous record from the La Nina years of 1973-74.
The probability of consistent rainfall comes off the back of Port Macquarie's driest year on record in 2019 with drought conditions forcing the region into level 4 water restrictions.
Just 514 millimetres of rain fell on Port Macquarie throughout 2019 and is the lowest recorded amount since 1870.
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