Wangaratta shivered through its coldest ever recorded minimum temperature for November last Wednesday morning.

The temperature dropped to minus 1.3 degrees, which is the coldest morning in 68 years of records, beating the previous record of 0.1 degrees in 1996.

We then backed it up Thursday morning with minus 0.8 degrees, our second coldest ever morning on record with light frosts.

Pairs of very cold mornings in Wangaratta during November is very rare.

In 1998 we had 0.8 degrees on 2 November and 1.8 degrees on 3 November, and interestingly heavy rain fell 10 days later on 13 November over most of Victoria with flooding at some places.

Will the same thing happen by Saturday, 22 November?

Very high temperatures topping 40 degrees occurred by mid December of 1998 and again at the end of December 1998 and first week of January 1999.

Last Wednesday also produced the coldest mornings on record for Benalla (minus 0.1 degrees) and Yarrawonga (minus 0.4 degrees), while Rutherglen's minus 2.1 degrees was its coldest November morning since minus 2.8 degrees in 1967.

Alpine resorts at Mt Buller, Mt Hotham and Falls Creek all recorded their coldest November mornings in several years with minimums of minus 5 to minus 6 degrees after snowfalls the previous weekend.

Mt Baw Baw recorded minus 3.6 degrees which was the coldest in November since 2006 and the wettest in November with 196mms since 2022.

Canberra also recorded a new November minimum of minus 2.3 degrees last Wednesday, beating the previous record of minus 1.8 degrees in 1967 and that did set up a very hot summer in Victoria in 1967-68.

Few places were fortunate to receive above average rainfalls in January 1968 but February 1968 was a very hot month in Victoria with maximums up to middle 40's.

Rainfall totals for November up until last Friday have been above average in the southern half of Victoria but have remained below average in the northern half of the state.