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===Climate===
Hay has a [[cold semi-arid climate]] (''BSk'') with long, hot, very sunny summers and cool, partly cloudy winters. Rainfall and mean temperature records have been kept for Hay since 1877; however, extreme temperature records only from 1957 onwards. Temperature extremes are quite marked over the full year: summers are regularly over {{convert|40|°C|°F}} while winters can see daytime temperatures below {{convert|10|°C|°F}}. The highest temperature recorded at Hay was {{convert|47.7|°C}} on [[2013 Australian heatwave|5 January 2013]]; the lowest recorded was {{convert|-3.8|°C}} on 3 August 2014. The average annual rainfall is {{convert|368.3|mm}}. On the whole it is considerably sunny with 143.6 clear days annually.<ref name="climate">{{cite web|url=http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_075031_All.shtml|title=Hay (Miller Street) climate averages|publisher=[[Bureau of Meteorology]]|access-date=16 April 2013}}</ref>
On 24 July 1936 a possible flurry of snow was reported to have occurred in Hay, which if verified would be the lowest known snowfall to have ever been observed in the state of New South Wales,<ref name=snow>{{ cite web | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/280079072| title=Report of snow in Hay (1936)|website=trove|access-date=2024-08-24}}</ref> at just {{convert|90|m|}} above sea level, though it did not settle on the ground.
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