After a stormy weekend and a wet start to the week, we are seeing a return to warmer conditions.
Severe thunderstorms on Saturday brought heavy rainfall, flash flooding, large hail and damaging winds to parts of Victoria.
Intense rainfall - exceeding a one in 50-year event - was recorded at Warrnambool and Dartmoor. They received 33.8 millimetres and 19.4mm, respectively, in only 15 minutes.
Heavy rainfall - exceeding a one in 10-year event - was recorded at Ballarat, which had 35mm in the gauge in about two hours, and Port Fairy, which had 26.4mm in one hour.
Haines Junction, Mount Sabine, recorded 194.4mm, which was the highest daily rainfall in Victoria since June 2012.
There was hail near Mildura on Saturday morning and flash flooding at Warnambool in the afternoon.
Steady rain throughout Sunday and Monday contributed to flash flooding near Lorne in the early hours of Monday morning.
The current La Nina in the Pacific is likely to wind-down by autumn.
La Nina typically increases the likelihood of above average rainfall across much of northern and eastern Australia during summer.
The remainder of January is looking to be wetter than average for parts of Australia's east coast, including south eastern Victoria.
For the rest of the state, there is no strong push towards wetter or drier conditions during the coming weeks.
Most of Victoria has slightly increased chances of a wetter than average February.
The first quarter of 2021 is very likely - with a chance of greater than 80 per cent - to be wetter than average for much of eastern and northern Queensland, and parts of the east coast of New South Wales and western Victoria.
Maximum temperatures are likely to be higher than average along the coast and in western Victoria during January to March.
At the same time, minimum temperatures are very likely - with a greater than 80 per cent chance - to be higher than average across most of the country, including all of Victoria.
The national and state 2020 annual climate summaries will be published on the Bureau of Meteorology's website in early January.
During 2020, rainfall was above average for parts of central and southern Victoria and close to average in most other parts.
Last year's maximum temperatures were warmer than average in parts of the north and east.
Minimum temperatures ranged from warmest on record for the far east to close to average for parts of the west and north.