The widespread rain, which caused floods in many parts of the region, has officially earned a place in the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) history books and answered the prayers of many farmers who were tired of the ongoing dry conditions.

Despite some damage including fences and bridges being washed out, and livestock getting stranded, most people welcomed the falls of well over 100 millimetres.

Wagga received 110mm at the weekend, to record the heaviest fall in history.

And other parts of the state made the history books too with Albury recording 66mm in 24 hours, the heaviest rain for the border city in 17 years, Corowa and Narrandera had 73mm which were the best falls for those two towns in more than 12 years.

And on the Monaro, Cooma had 51mm.

"Southern NSW was a battleground ... as warm, humid air from Queensland clashed with polar air from the Southern Ocean," says Tom Saunders, Meteorologist at The Weather Channel.

"The meeting of the two contrasting air masses was the ideal setup for severe thunderstorms," he said.

Meanwhile, the water which is laying in many paddocks in the region has created optimism as sowing of the winter crop looms.

With talk of escalating prices for inputs farmers needed the rain to pave the way for a positive start to planting.

Landmark Temora branch manager, David Curry said the town received 80 to 100mm, which was certainly welcomed by local farmers.

"There will be some early oat and forage crops sown on this," he said.

"People needed the rain to put oats in," he said.

"It has been a pretty perfect rain."

Alan Brown, "Gundamain", Tarcutta emptied 140mm out of the gauge and said the rain would have filled the soil profile well and also provided some run off to fill dams and surface storage.

"We got some fence damage but that comes with rain, you can't switch it off," he said.

"It is the best March rain we have ever seen and this has come for us on top of 60mm a few weeks before."

In the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA), Peter Flanagan, "Cuba Trees", Hanwood said things were looking so much better.

"We have had over three inches and that is excellent," he said.

Unlike other parts of the Riverina the MIA missed out on much of the earlier rain a couple of weeks ago.

"There is no water to be seen on many places because it has just soaked in so quickly."