Winter has arrived in the Shoalhaven with a vengeance, with strong cold winds and driving rain lashing the area.
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The wild storm rolled into Nowra late Monday afternoon, dumping 68 millimetres of rain through to 9am Tuesday.
After months of below average rainfall, Nowra finally looks like it might meet a month's average, which for June is 124.5mm.
On Monday the temperature dropped to single figures around 8pm, to 8.4 degrees just before midnight and 7.7 degrees at 1am.
And hovered around the 10-degree mark from 2.50am through to 9.50am.
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The wind started to rise mid evening and in the early hours of Tuesday hit a speed of 52km/h at 4.20am.
Wind gusts at Nowra hit 70km/h at 5.48am, with two readings of 69km/h at 5.09am and 8.20am.
Nowra's wettest June month was 411.8mm in 2016, while the wettest 24-hour period for June was on June 5, 2016 when the area received 159.4mm.
The driest June month on record was in 2004 when the area received just 11.2mm.
In Nowra today (Tuesday, June 4) winds will be from the south-south west 40 to 60 km/h, increasing to 60 to 80 km/h near the coast during the early morning.
Daytime maximum temperatures between 8 and 13.
Further south and Ulladulla recorded a wind gust of 130km/h at 3.50am, reported to be the strongest wind to hit the southern town in June for a decade.
Up to 9am Ulladulla had received 41.8mm
To the east, Point Perpendicular received 56mm of rain to 9am with the highest wind gust hitting 107 km/h at 4.33am and another reading of 91km/h at 6.30am.
If you have any photographs of the storms or a weather photo we'd love to see it. Just email them to robert.crawford@fairfaxmedia.com.au