Sydney is in for at least another week of dry and mostly unseasonably warm weather, as odds begin to tilt towards climatic conditions that would favour much more of that to come.

The city's top temperature reached 24.6 degrees on Tuesday, the eighth time this month the typical maximum for May of 19.5 was exceeded by more than 5 degrees.

The outlook for the coming week is for most days to reach 20 to 22 but nudge 23 degrees by early next week, with little chance of rain, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

John and Joy Haycock hand-feed their cattle on their dusty stud near Yeoval, as they have done for more than a year, amid a prolonged dry spell. Credit:Nick Moir

Farmers are among those looking to the heavens for rain relief.