The Avoca River peaked at 6.39 metres at Charlton Town on Thursday evening and has been falling since, and three more Victorian rivers dropped to final flood warnings overnight.
The Bureau of Meteorology's moderate flood warning for the Avoca, issued at 2pm on Friday, had Charlton Town at 5.31 metres and falling at 1pm, with the gauge downstream of the town at 5.57 metres and also falling. Yawong Weir was at 1.58 metres and falling. Quambatook, further down the system, was steady at 0.23 metres. The Bureau said Charlton Town could fall below the minor flood level of 4.00 metres on Saturday morning.
Nine warnings are current across Victoria on the warnings summary generated at 10.46am AEST on Saturday. Final flood warnings are in place for the Latrobe River, the Broken River, and Seven and Castle Creeks. A final warning is the last bulletin the Bureau issues on a river for an event, once it has dropped below the minor threshold.
Minor flood warnings are current for the Kiewa, the Ovens and King, the Goulburn and the Loddon. The Avoca and the Richardson are still at moderate.
No flood or severe weather warnings are current in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Tasmania or the Australian Capital Territory. The national summary has six ocean wind warnings current for Metarea 10.
The Victorian state forecast issued at 4am on Saturday has a high pressure system centred over the Bight extending a ridge across the state, moving southeast to sit over Tasmania late on Sunday. Saturday brings morning fog patches in the east, frost in the north east, and isolated light showers south of the ranges. Sunday is much the same, with fog, frost and a chance of a brief shower over the central and eastern ranges in the afternoon.
No substantial rain is forecast for either day.
The two rivers still at moderate are both in the west, and they are behaving the way western rivers do. The Avoca and the Richardson run through flat country and drain slowly. The Ovens, King and Kiewa rise in the alpine north east, ran hard after the rain of 9 and 10 August, and are already back to minor.
River heights are read overnight and the Bureau reissues each warning as new gauge readings arrive. Current warnings and road closures are published on the Bureau's Victorian warnings page and at VicEmergency.
