A thunderstorm front, which brought heavy rainfall to Melbourne suburbs, lost strength as it approached North East Victoria, bringing only a few spots of rain.
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Temperatures reached the low 40s at many places on Thursday and Friday, January 9 and 10.
Coonabarabran recorded its fifth day of over 40 degrees - the most since eight days recorded in 1939.
The overnight minimum temperature to last Saturday (January 11) morning was 27.1 and this was the warmest January night in Coonabarabran since 27.8 in 1940, with many residents facing a worrying night with a fire out of control only a few kilometres north-east of town.
Tropical cyclone Blake delivered heavy rains to places in northern Western Australia.
Broome collected 259mm after one of the driest May to December periods on record, with only 41mm, and the hottest December there since 1951.
Maximum temperatures for the first 12 days of January at Broome were three degrees lower than the mean maximum for last December due to the rain this month. More is expected later this month, as a second tropical low moves close to the Kimberley Coast.
Past records show that when a hot and dry December is followed by a cooler January, with well above average rain not only in Broome but also at Marble Bar, it eventually led to much-needed rainfall in the Albury-Wodonga region by the fourth week of January and again in early and around mid-February.
These past episodes of cooler and wetter Januaries occurred in 1902, 1934, 1942, 1952, 1973, 1981 and 1992. In the Kimberley area of WA, Newman recorded its wettest January day, with 143mm in 54 years of records. The previous wettest January day was 141mm on January 23, 1973, and about a week after that date in 1973 heavy rain arrived in the Albury-Wodonga region.
Further south in WA, the outback town of Carnegie recorded a deluge of 270mm to last Friday (January 10) morning - easily a record in 78 years of records.
The second tropical low brought 562mm to Dum In Mirrie Island.
This is the heaviest daily fall ever recorded in the Northern Territory. The previous records were 544.6mm at Roper Valley in April 1963 and 510 mm at Port Keats in February 1976.
Just after the April 1963 event, many districts across the nation, including Albury-Wodonga, had excessive rains up to August.
Both Coonabarabran, Dubbo and Moree for the first 12 days of this January have had daily maximum temperatures three degrees higher than the first 12 days of January of last year. Bourke had four higher.
In the Riverina, it was two degrees higher.
