{"id":914797,"date":"2026-10-03T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T15:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914797\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T15:38:13","slug":"flood-watch-for-most-of-victoria-as-heavy-rain-continues-with-storms-forecast-in-parts-of-nsw-australia-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914797\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood watch for most of Victoria as heavy rain continues, with storms forecast in parts of NSW | Australia weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

A severe weather system continues to dump heavy rain into sodden riverine catchments across Victoria<\/a>, sparking widespread warnings of transport disruption and delays.<\/p>\n

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a flood watch for most of Victoria including the north-east, central, south-west and north-west, as well as parts of Gippsland.<\/p>\n

It also said bursts of heavy rain accompanied by potentially damaging winds and thunderstorms were possible in parts of New South Wales<\/a> as a band of heavy weather swept the southern states.<\/p>\n

In Victoria, the Otway Ranges, south-west of Melbourne, and Gippsland are facing 24-hour rain totals up to 90mm, with isolated falls up to 150mm possible in elevated regions.<\/p>\n

Six-hourly totals up to 70mm have been forecast, with conditions not expected to ease until late Saturday.<\/p>\n

Gippsland is also likely to be hard hit, with 24-hour totals between 50 and 80mm likely and isolated falls up to 110mm possible, with conditions easing Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is on top of the rain you\u2019ve already had in the last few days, so I\u2019ll say it again, the soils are already saturated,\u201d senior meteorologist Angus Hines said.<\/p>\n

Over 100mm has already fallen in parts of the Otways, with heavy rain continuing to fall on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother 30 to 50mm on top of last night\u2019s deluge could certainly fall there,\u201d Hines said.<\/p>\n

The rain was centred around a low pressure system situated over the Murray River on the NSW-Victorian border.<\/p>\n

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For now, there was just one official flood warning in place for the Bunyip River in Victoria but Hines said more rivers were likely to see rises across the weekend.<\/p>\n

He said the situation was dynamic and it was highly likely more flood warnings would be issued.<\/p>\n

In NSW, a severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for the Illawarra and parts of south coast, central and southern tablelands, the central west slopes and plains.<\/p>\n

Locations which may be affected include Orange, Goulburn, Dubbo, Nowra, Bowral and Bathurst.<\/p>\n

The severe weather is expected to clear by the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A severe weather system continues to dump heavy rain into sodden riverine catchments across Victoria, sparking widespread warnings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-914797","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\/914797","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=914797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}