Congrats Sydney, we all knew you could do it. For the first time in two years, Australia's 2nd-wettest capital city (after Darwin) has gone two weeks without rain.

There were spatters of rain on Thursday in some suburbs, but nothing that was heavy enough to register at the Observatory Hill weather station, where official records for Sydney are kept.

• Sydney has been rain-free since May 20, and will likely remain that way until at least Sunday.
• That means it has now exceeded the 13-day streak from June 6 to 19, 2022.

Will it beat the next longest recent streak of 25 days back in 2021? Almost certainly not. While no deluge looms on the immediate horizon, there's just too much potentially wet weather coming next week, as we told you earlier today.

Take a look at the graph below from the Sydney weather page on the desktop version of Weatherzone.

Interestingly, Sydney has had three months with strongly above-average rainfall in 2023 to date, with two months of below-average rainfall.

It all adds up to 663.6 mm for the year-to-date (January through May), which is 59.9 mm up on the usual 603.7 mm.

So 2023 to date has been far from a dry year, but the last two weeks have definitely been a nice break for sodden Sydneysiders. Enjoy it before the clouds inevitably open up.

For the record, Sydney's longest rainless streak was 48 days from July 17, 1995 to September 3, 1995.