Rainfall totals in July were above average for north-western and parts of central, eastern and far south-western Victoria.
Victoria’s area-averaged rainfall total in July was 79.5 mm, above the 1961 to 1990 average.
July’s rainfall was defined by a wet weekend, where Shepparton saw 25mm of rain from 9am on Friday, July 25 to 9am Monday, July 28, with 16.8mm falling on Friday.
Benalla saw 19.6mm of rain, bringing its July total rainfall to 77mm.
Strathbogie saw 50.2mm of rain on the Friday and Saturday, bringing its total rainfall for July to 168.6mm.
Mean maximum temperatures in July were above average to very much above average for most of the state.
Shepparton’s warmest day was 16.8°C on Saturday, July 26, which lead into the coldest night, with a night-time temperature of 9.3°C.
Shepparton’s coldest overnight low was on the night of Thursday, July 24, which hit a chilling -1.4°C, which was followed by the coldest day, on Friday, July 25, reaching a daytime temperature of 10.2°C.
There were several low-pressure systems and cold fronts that passed through Victoria.
Looking to the rest of August through to October, above-average rainfall is likely to very likely for most of mainland Australia.
Above-average maximum temperatures are likely to very likely for most of northern, western and south-eastern Australia.
There is an increased chance of unusually high minimum temperatures across most of the country.
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