If Sydney residents feel like it has been uncomfortably wet, they might be on to something.
The NSW capital has been drenched with the wettest March ever, exceeding all previous rainfall highs for the city and smashing a record set 80 years ago.
The rainfall totals made March a "very significant month", Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Jonathan How told AAP earlier this week.
"It's very likely Sydney will surpass the 1942 record (this week)" Mr How said, as the rainfall totals still remained just short of the record.
"What we do know is that it's the second-fastest on record that Sydney has surpassed 1000 millimetres for the year."
On Tuesday morning, Sydney's rainfall totals for March hovered just below the 1942 record of 521mm, with 512mm captured since the start of the month.
The record for March has now been set at 537mm, some 16mm more rainfall than the previously recorded highest totals, a record set in 1942.
The new rainfall high was confirmed on Thursday.
It comes as much of the east coast of NSW has been drenched with persistent falls through March and February and the Northern Rivers is reeling from renewed flooding.
