IDV10300
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Victoria
Notes on the Weather
Issued at 4:30 pm EDT on Sunday 5 October 2025.
Recent Events
Saturday was dry, warm and mostly sunny across Victoria after morning fog
cleared. There was no significant rainfall recorded in the 24 hours to 9am
today.
Overnight minimum temperatures were generally up to 6 degrees above the October
average, and mostly ranged between 7 and 13 degrees. The lowest temperature
recorded was 4 degrees at Mt Hotham and Wangaratta. The highest minimum was 17
degrees at Essendon, Scoresby and Cape Nelson.
Cloud thickened over Victoria during Sunday. Dry, gusty northwesterly winds
extended over the State. A couple of light showers developed about the far
southwest coasts bringing 2mm of rainfall to Cape Nelson, and 1mm to Cape Otway
and Portland AP in the 7 hours to 4pm.
Maximum temperatures were generally 4 to 9 degrees above the monthly average.
Maxima mostly ranged between 21 and 29 degrees. The highest temperature
recorded to 4pm was 36 degrees at Mildura. The lowest recorded maximum was 11
degrees at Mt Hotham.
In Melbourne the temperature ranged from a low of 16 degrees at 1:59am to a
high of 25.7 degrees at 3:57pm. There was no rain recorded in the 31 hours to
4pm.
Explanatory Notes
A cold front will cross Victoria during Sunday evening and early Monday
morning, with southwesterly flow becoming established over the State in its
wake. Winds turning west to northwesterly on Tuesday and persisting until the
end of the week, as a deep, slow-moving trough crosses the Bight. A series of
cold fronts in the trough will cross southwest Victoria later in the week.
