Tamworth Regional Weather Facebook page administrator Dave Farrenden and his colleagues have had a big 12 months keeping in front of wild weather events from drought, bushfires and thunderstorms to hail storms and floods.

"It's been a weird year," he told the Leader.

"December alone was weird - we had the really hot days at the start that broke records for the station at the airport ... and then we got all the rain."

Mr Farrenden said it was a "terrific" year with rain bucketing down, and meant bringing a little more joy to people who read the forecasts.

"It's the rain that just keeps coming and good to see the lawns are green now," he said.

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"But there are still dry spots and we're not out of the woods until dams fill up."

The year 2020 began with bushfires ravaging parts of the region, before pouring rains came in February.

Winter brought days of powdery snow in the local area, before the summer thunderstorm season kicked off and brought a dangerous and damaging hail storm and countless afternoons of lightning and thunder.

Tamworth sweltered through one of the city's driest Novembers, then waded through one of the wettest Decembers.

In between was a scorching five-day record-breaking heat wave.

"It's the Australian climate and it changes quite a bit and it could have a bit to do with climate change but we don't go into that because it causes arguments," Mr Farrenden said.

"Usually after we get wet years, around the corner could be another dry year, it's an extreme climate here in Australia and it's ever changing."

And, each weather event looks a little different depending on where you're standing, according to Mr Farrenden.

Tamworth only has one official Bureau of Meteorology rain gauge servicing Tamworth at the airport, but totals reported on social media show how patchy the rain and storms 2020 brought were.

Mr Farrenden said he caught 983.2mm for the year at his home in Westdale, compared to the 893mm notched at the ariport.

"[The community] make a huge difference, they send in their pictures and let us know what happened at their place," he said.

The six administrators of Tamworth Regional Weather poured countless hours into the page last year, researching different models to make their own predictions and warnings.

"I make time for my family but it does take alot," Mr Farrenden said.

A group of local storm chasers have had a bumper season, travelling thousands of kilometres across the region.

Mr Farrenden said his most memorable events of 2020 were a thunderstorm which battered the city in February and closed the Oxley Highway, along with the destructive hail storm in October.