However, a wet winter is predicted, with a wet week to begin on Friday, June 6.
After a dry start to March, there was one heavy spell of rain across the region.
Shepparton’s rainfall started at noon on Thursday, March 20, with the Bureau of Meteorology recording 4.4mm by 1.30pm and showers continuing until about 7pm.
From 7pm until 11pm, Shepparton was soaked in just over 10mm of rain.
It calmed down until 2.30am on Friday, March 21. In an hour, Shepparton saw 8mm of rain, with the final rain at 4am.
The total rainfall was 26.8mm from noon on the Thursday to 4am on Friday.
Shepparton saw less than 2mm of rain in a record-breaking April.
Rainfall totals in April were below to very much below average for northern Victoria.
Shepparton saw a month total of 1.8mm, with 1mm of that on Anzac Day — the third-driest April on record.
Deniliquin, Echuca, Kyabram, Mangalore, Tatura and Shepparton all saw their highest average April temperatures.
Shepparton, Kyabram and Deniliquin broke records for highest average night-time temperature in their areas.
Rainfall totals in May were below to very much below average for most of Victoria.
Victoria’s area-averaged rainfall total in May was 47.3 mm, 71 per cent below the 1961 to 1990 average, the seventh-driest on record for all Mays since 1900, and was the driest May in Victoria since 2005.
Victoria’s area-averaged mean maximum temperature was the second-warmest on record for all Mays since 1910.
Kyabram, Tatura, Shepparton and Deniliquin saw record high May temperatures.
Kyabram, Tatura, Shepparton, Strathbogie and Yarrawonga sweltered through their highest average May daytime temperature.
Rainfall totals in autumn were below to very much below average for much of the state.
It was the driest autumn in Victoria since 2008.
Strathbogie saw Victoria’s coldest night for the season.
Echuca, Kyabram, Tatura, Strathbogie, Yarrawonga and Shepparton saw their highest average autumn daytime temperatures.
In the week following Friday, June 6, up to 35mm of rain is expected in Shepparton, with Sunday and Monday being the wettest, with predictions of up to 8mm each.
BOM forecasts an increased chance of above average winter rainfall for much of mainland Australia.
There is a 90 per cent change of the region having a higher than average rainfall.
Warmer than average days are very likely across most of Australia, with an increased chance of unusually high daytime temperatures.
Warmer than average nights are very likely across Australia, with an increased chance of unusually high overnight temperatures.
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