{"id":911853,"date":"2026-10-01T05:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911853\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:12:12","slug":"parts-of-victoria-could-see-three-months-worth-of-rain-as-storms-forecast-for-australias-south-east-australia-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911853\/","title":{"rendered":"Parts of Victoria could see three months\u2019 worth of rain as storms forecast for Australia\u2019s south-east | Australia weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

Widespread rain and thunderstorms are forecast to drench south-eastern Australia from Thursday, with the heaviest falls expected across Victoria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A trough moving east across South Australia<\/a> was expected to combine with a low pressure system moving through the Great Australian Bight on Thursday, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.<\/p>\n

The two systems would combine into a slow-moving low over Victoria, eastern South Australia and New South Wales<\/a>, bringing widespread storms and dumping large amounts of rain.<\/p>\n

Most of Victoria could expect rainfall totals of 25-50mm over the coming days, according to Dean Narramore, a senior meteorologist at the bureau. Widespread rain was already developing across western and southern Victoria, he said, which would \u201cramp up\u201d and spread throughout the state on Friday.<\/p>\n

Parts of Gippsland, as well as the central, eastern and Otway ranges regions, could experience rainfalls exceeding 100mm \u2013 and some areas could record up to 150mm.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s equivalent to one to two months of rainfall, maybe even three months\u2019 worth of rain, in any areas that get 150mm,\u201d Narramore said.<\/p>\n

Melbourne would also be \u201cquite wet\u201d, with 30 to 50mm of rain expected to fall over the coming days, Narramore said. Flood watches were in place for parts of Gippsland, north-east and central Victoria.<\/p>\n

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Thunderstorms were also expected, along with the potential for damaging winds in coastal areas of Victoria on Friday and Saturday, according to the BoM.<\/p>\n

It was an appropriate start to October, coinciding with the beginning of Australia\u2019s peak thunderstorm season, which continues into January.<\/p>\n

Canberra and Sydney could also expect rain and storms on Saturday, as the weather system moved across New South Wales.<\/p>\n

\u201cShowers and storms are likely to impact the entire Sydney basin, with the potential for accumulated rainfall totals in the vicinity of 50mm in some suburbs due to a combination of persistent showers and localised downpours during thunderstorms,\u201d according to<\/a> Anthony Sharwood at Weatherzone.<\/p>\n

However, the wet and potentially stormy weather was expected to clear in time for the kickoff of Sunday\u2019s NRL grand final, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe morning and early afternoon could see a lingering shower in parts of Sydney, but as the day goes on, a drying trend will set in, creating near-perfect conditions for a fast flowing game of NRL footy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widespread rain and thunderstorms are forecast to drench south-eastern Australia from Thursday, with the heaviest falls expected across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-911853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}