Falls of more than 20 millimetres were received in parts of the state's north-east on Sunday.
A fast moving and narrow band of thunderstorms crossed the state with falls in the west and central areas limited to totals from less than a millimetre to to 5mm, while areas on the ranges were better served.
The rain could be just a sample of what could arrive later this week with the Bureau of Meteorology forcasting widespread rain in central, Gippsland and northeastern parts of the state.
BoM duty forecaster Chris Arvier, said early this week conditions were fine, autumn days.
He said Wednesday and into Thursday a low-pressure trough would establish over eastern Australia that would draw in moisture that would result in rain and thunderstorms.
The majority of the activity would be during tha day on Thursday with significant activity in the north-east, central and Gippsland.
He said the central and eastern districts could receive 10 to 15mm but the north east could expect 20 to 30mm, rising to 50 to 60mm from thunderstorms in isolated pockets.
The west would miss out on the vast majority of the rain.
Of Sunday's rain, Albury recorded a total of 23mm while Corryong received 19mm and Yea and Seymour 18mm.
Les Ridd, Molesworth, said the rain Sunday had nearly missed his farm with 12mm falling.
He said Yea was just eight kilometres away.
The latest rain brought the March total to 52.5mm, year-to-date 150mm and well above the 2019 figure for the same time of 42.5mm.
"I'm not complaining. Cattle feed is pretty low," he said.
"The rain we had in January was virtually wasted, apart from putting some water in dams."
The autumn-calving herd was close to finishing calving. The cows receive silage while calving and then switch to hay as the weather cools down, he said.
He said any follow up rain this week would be fantastic.
Ruffy recorded a total of 10mm while Echuca managed a storm and received 11mm.
The rains were patchy with Porepunkah and Mansfield managing just 4mm each and Wangaratta 2mm.
While Porepunkah missed out on the latest falls, but the area had already received 290mm for the year so far . Yea's recent falls brought its 2019 total to 210mm while Corryong's yearly total was now at 206mm.
Bendigo also recorded just 4mm on Sunday but its year-to-date total was 116mm compared with just 24 at the same time in 2019.
In the west of the state St Arnaud recorded
Last week the BoM forecast that April was likely to be wetter than average for the western half of Australia and parts of the southeast including western Victoria..
April to June days were likely to be warmer than average across northern and eastern Australia, but cooler in parts of southern WA.