The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting northerly wind gusts between 60 and 70 kilometers per hour from tomorrow.
Senior meteorologist Matthew Thomas said the Central Highlands would be impacted first as a cold front moved across the state, with wind gusts likely to reach between 60 and 70km/h from tomorrow morning.
"They will continue through until Wednesday afternoon with the winds transitioning to be more about the alpine peaks in east of the state from Wednesday afternoon, with the gusts increasing to about 80km/h over the alpine peaks," he said.
"We'll see some rain through Wednesday, Thursday and Friday onwards.
"On Wednesday we'll see a northwesterly cloud band push into the west of the state.
"The rainfall on Wednesday will be more about the north of Victoria with the higher totals being about the northeast, in particular the northeast ranges."
It would be a similar pattern on Thursday with rain also falling on the west of the state, he said.
On Friday there would be rain in the north and the west and pushing into central parts of the state as well, he said.
"Over the three days we're looking at 30 to 80mm is possible about the northeast of Victoria," he said.
Isolated totals above 100mm were possible for the northeast ranges, he said.
The northeast river catchments were expected to rise on Wednesday through to Friday and some catchments could see minor flooding.
"Elsewhere about the state we're looking at around 15 to 25mm about much of the north and the west of the state, although only 5 to 15mm expected about the Mallee and parts of the northern Wimmera," he said.
"Around 5 to 10mm is expected about Melbourne over the three days but generally less that 5mm is expected through much of Gippsland."
Northern Victoria was also likely to experience thunderstorms on Thursday, although there was a chance they could move over the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and west and south Gippsland during Thursday afternoon.