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Statewide soaking for Victoria

The whole of Victoria has received significant rainfall overnight, with the heaviest falls concentrated in the central part of the state.

It's quite rare to pan down the list of 24-hour rainfall observations for almost 100 weather stations across Victoria, and see at least a millimetre or two of rain recorded at every single one of them. And many places recorded much more than that.

Image: 24-hour rainfall totals across Victoria to 9am Wednesday, November 27. Source: BoM.

Some of the Victorian observations of note included:

• 60mm at Concongella Creek, just north of the large Wimmera town of Stawell.
• 50mm or more at several spots in the state’s North East forecast district – and these were at locations outside the highest parts of the Victorian Alps, where totals were in the 30-40mm range at the usual suspects like Falls Creek and Mt Hotham.
• 24.4mm in Melbourne, which was the heaviest daily total so far this month and has brought the November running total close to the monthly average.
• Another 14mm for Mildura, after the city had its wettest day in almost three years earlier this week. November is now by far its wettest month of 2024 to date.

Wet wet wet #Melbourneweather pic.twitter.com/H7wxQJHtjh

— Ben Kimber (@BenKs_World) November 26, 2024

And it wasn't just Victoria copping a drenching which would have been welcome in most places. Parts of eastern  and northern SA, and southwestern NSW, also received heavy falls in the 24 hours to 9am Wednesday, including:

• 36.6mm at Naracoorte (SA): This was the heaviest daily fall since January for the large town in the Lower South East forecast district.
• 30mm at Moomba (SA): A very handy fall for the remote location way up in the northeast corner of the state, where the November average monthly rainfall is just 18mm.
• 27mm at Ivanhoe (NSW): This was almost the entire November average in a day for the tiny town in the Lower Western forecast district.
• 16.6mm at Andamooka (SA): Remarkably, this was the fourth time this November that the desert town near dry Lake Torrens has had a daily fall of 14mm or higher – and bear in mind that its average November monthly rainfall is just 14mm.
• 3.6mm in Adelaide, which was better than nothing but another example of city dwellers getting teasing rain while other South Australian locations saw much more.

The overnight rain was caused by a low pressure trough which has been tracking across southeastern Australia over the last 24 hours.

Showers will now start to dry up in South Australia and the western half of Victoria and NSW.

But the current systems are slow-moving, and showers and storms will intensify in large parts of eastern Australia in coming days, lingering into the weekend, in a complex series of troughs associated with a low pressure system which should be centred near Tasmania.

Sydney and Canberra are set to be the wettest southern capitals during this period.