Shepparton’s rainfall started at noon on Thursday, March 20, with the Bureau of Meteorology recording 4.4mm by 1.30pm and showers continuing until about 7pm.
From 7pm until 11pm, Shepparton was soaked in just over 10mm of rain, when it calmed down until 2.30am on Friday, March 21.
In an hour, Shepparton saw 8mm of rain with the final rain at 4am.
The total rainfall was 26.8mm between noon on Thursday to 4am on Friday.
Heading north, Deniliquin saw a total rainfall of 34mm, with the first rain starting at 10.30am on Thursday and the last at 6.30am on Friday.
Yarrawonga saw the highest rainfall in the region, being drenched in a total of 39mm of rain over 15 hours.
The rain began at 9.30am on Thursday with a downpour of 7.8mm in 30 minutes between 6pm and 6.30pm.
The rain finished up at 1am on Friday.
Moving east, Benalla saw a total of 27mm while Strathbogie caught 17mm of rain.
Further south, Mangalore Airport saw 7.6mm of rain between 10am on Thursday and 12.30am on Friday.
At 1pm there had been a total rainfall of 3mm when it stayed dry until about 8pm when a further 4.6mm fell in the following four-and-a-half hours.
Looking west, Tatura saw 18.2mm of rain from noon to 11.30pm and Kyabram saw a total of 22.6mm, with the wettest hour being from 7.30pm to 8.30pm on Thursday seeing 7.8mm.
Further west, Echuca got 16mm in total whereas Kerang received a wet 22mm total.
This rain follows a dry February in Shepparton, with a total of 3.2mm of rain across the whole month, which wasn’t as dry as Kerang, which had a February total of 0.3mm of rain.
From April to June, BOM is forecasting rainfall to be within the typical range across most of eastern, central and southern Australia.
It also predicts a wetter than usual April to June for NSW.
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