Overall, Victoria in January was wetter than average, largely due to record rainfall in parts to 9am on January 21 and 23.
Daytime temperatures were warmer than average across the state.
Statewide, rainfall was 19 per cent above the long-term January average of 40 millimetres.
Most of the south-east and central Victoria were wetter than average, with very much above average rainfall (highest 10pc of January records) in parts of Central and West Gippsland districts.
Elsewhere across Victoria, rainfall was close to average for this time of year.
The exceptions were pockets of the south-west, north-west, and the far east of the state, where it was drier than average.
Severe thunderstorms in the afternoon on January 15 brought heavy rainfall, flash flooding and damaging winds to central Victoria and parts of Melbourne.
A deepening low pressure trough brought rainfall to most of Victoria on January 19-20.
Severe thunderstorms over central and eastern Victoria on January 19 delivered heavy rainfall and giant hail.
A cold front and associated trough which brought moisture from the tropics, resulted in more moderate to heavy falls across the state on January 22.
At the same time, strong northerly winds brought dust from north-west Victoria to the southern parts of the state; it came down with the rain, coating surfaces with a layer of dust, and turned the Yarra River brown.
Statewide, the mean maximum temperature was 1.16 degrees warmer than the long-term January average.
A cold front that crossed Victoria in the first week of January brought daytime temperatures about 15 degrees cooler than average to some sites on January 5.
The final days of the month were very warm, peaking on January 31 when temperatures across the state soared into the 40s.
Night-time temperatures during the month were generally close to average, but there were some warm nights.
While the mean minimum temperature for Victoria was 0.73 degrees warmer than average it was the lowest since 2013.
Warm and dry conditions in 2019 primed the landscape for bushfires and heatwaves.
In January 2020, bushfires burnt more than 1.5 million hectares across the state.
Smoke haze from bushfires extended across most of Victoria on January 13, while in the east there was thick smoke.
The state recorded the lowest air quality in the world on January 14, as smoke from East Gippsland fires spread.
