RAIN in Victoria during the next few days could be long-lasting and substantial enough to lead to flooding in the east of the state.
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Bands of rain will affect eastern Victoria for the next two-or-three days before a pool of cold air brings bursts of showers and storms from Sunday. By mid-next week this will amount to widespread 25 to 50mm across a large area with isolated falls close to 100mm.
Flooding is highly likely but not to the same extent as the recent Queensland flooding.
Much of this rain will be due to the remnants of a monsoon low which has already started bringing rain to the moisture-starved Mallee. Mildura has picked up more than five millimetres so far and is likely to end up with more than 20mm by Monday, potentially its biggest downpour in about a year.
This rain is slowly spreading south and east with the movement of the low.
However, for the rest of the Mallee and anywhere else west of Melbourne the story won't be as wet as in the east. Rain and storms will be much more patchy, with quite a few places only gaining less than five millimetres all up.
