The Albury-Wodonga region is set to experience a run of cold, frosty nights with fog and not much rain until mid-July.
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Wednesday's upper-level system has moved closer and it is anticipated to result in more heavy rain in Sydney this weekend or early next week making this month the fourth successive wet June in Sydney.
There were five successive wet Junes in Sydney from 1863 to 1867 and again from 1963 to 1967 and also from 1896 to 1900 and from 1948 to 1953.
This, however, won't break the perpetual drought over the greater portion of the nation, which has persisted since early 2017.
An active cold front approaching North East Victoria on Tuesday, June 18 brought very cold conditions and heavy snowfalls in the Alpine regions.
The air ahead of this front was already cold.
The maximum temperature reached only 11 degrees at Wangaratta - more than two degrees below the June normal.
Only light showers fell and the Albury-Wodonga region will face a cold spell, which will continue until near the end of June, with widespread heavy frosts and frequent fogs.
An upper-level system with cold pool aloft, now sitting in the Bight, will bring some scattered mainly light showers next week.
The prospect of significant rainfall will not eventuate until mid-July.
Many places are still suffering significantly from the lack of rainfall.
Moree, in the central north-west of NSW, has had only 77mm of rain so far this year to mid-June.
This is the driest since the 47mm recorded during the crippling drought of 1902 to mid-June.
Other very dry such periods at Moree were in 1915, 1923 and 1965.
St George in southern inland Queensland, with only 73.8mm of rain received to date this year, is having its driest such period since 1985. Other drier such periods at St George were in 1902 and 1915.
Sydney, which had a record five successive days of 22 degrees or more a week ago, has now received 85mm rainfall.
A similar rainfall event after a warm spell in June previously happened in 1923, 1958, 1975 and 2015 in Sydney.
These particular years did see significant rain in North East Victoria from mid-July onward.
But I am cautious of using Sydney's unusual weather events for outlooks in North East Victoria. Last year there were similarities in Sydney which matched that of 1947,1958 and 1975 and the latter half of those years did see excessive rains in North East Victoria, which did not occur last year except for that massive deluge of December 13 last year.
