On Tuesday Weddin Shire Council announced that it would be closing all of its unsealed roads to vehicles over 4.5 tonnes until 10am Friday March 26 when it would be reassessed.

A number of roads across the shire and further afield were affected and/or closed due to water and flooding with some motorists having to find alternate routes via Temora, Cowra and Young to make their way back to Grenfell.

With roads flooding or becoming dangerous and having to be closed across the Shire it bodes the question of just how much rain was recorded this week.

Well 128.4mm was recorded this week alone by the Bureau of Meteorology at the Manganese Road station, that is almost three times the average monthly rainfall for Grenfell over three days.

The Bureau of Meteorology's data showed 25.6mm was recorded up until 9am on Monday morning, a massive 86.0mm up until 9am on Tuesday morning and a more sedate 16.8mm up until 9am on Wednesday morning.

In the entire month of March last year the Grenfell station only recorded 74.4mm.

When you add the remainder of the rainfall received already this month it brings the March total with less than a week left to 149.4mm.

And the rain isn't supposed to stop with an 90 per cent chance of showers bringing between 1-5mm and a 50 per cent chance of a thunderstorm for Grenfell predicted on Thursday and a 50 per cent chance of a late shower on Saturday afternoon.

However, there is still an awful lot of rain that would need to fall over Weddin if we were to reach the highest ever recorded monthly total for March of 236.4mm which was recorded in 1950.

That is nearly double what we received over the past week!

In some better news the rain is expected to ease off over the weekend and turn into what should be a sunny end of next week with temperatures in the mid twenties according to the Bureau of Meteorology.