By Aimee Amiga
After a warm night, Melbourne woke up to light rain on Friday, a little taster of the heavier falls expected later on.
A cold front that's moving in off the Southern Ocean is sending warm, humid, northerly winds across Victoria, with the city heading for a top of 28 degrees.
It's a wet and humid Friday in Melbourne.Credit: Justin McManus
After light morning showers dampened commuters' journey to work, Melbourne might get a short, dry break around the middle of the day, before heavier falls in the early afternoon.
The Bureau of Meteorology is expecting some two to 10 millimetres of rain.
But the commute home is likely to be drier.
As the cold front moves through around 5pm, it'll dry the skies and replace those warm winds with cooler westerlies, says Senior Forecaster Richard Carlyon.
It'll also cause conditions to become less humid and temperatures to drop to the low 20s as we head into the evening.
"The relative humidity is currently 60 per cent," said Mr Carlyon, just before the morning commute.
"It'll stay around 50-60 per cent throughout the day, ahead of that change. Then, once the change moves through, we'll see that humidity drop to about 30-40 per cent."
The northerly winds are expected to be strong, reaching 40 to 70 km/h in the city, before they turn westerly behind the change, at which point they will ease a little into the evening.
As for the rest of the state, the heaviest rain will move through from the west to east over the course of the day.
A band of heavier rain that began in South Australia is expected to reach the southwest late this morning, move across the central areas in the mid- to late afternoon, and reach eastern Victoria later this afternoon and into tonight.
Over the weekend, Melbourne is expected to reach 23 degrees on both Saturday and Sunday, before heating up to 31 on Monday and a very hot 38 on Tuesday.
But on Wednesday, the temperature will drop by some 13 degrees to a top of 25, with a slight chance of a shower.