Every flood warning current in Victoria on Sunday morning is a minor warning, and the King River is on its final bulletin, a week after the rain of 9 and 10 August started the event.
The Bureau of Meteorology reissued the Ovens and King warning at 9.41am AEST on Sunday, the eighteenth for that system. The Ovens at Wangaratta was 11.95 metres at 9am and steady, and the Bureau expects it to fall below the minor flood level of 11.90 metres on Sunday afternoon. Upstream at Myrtleford the river was 2.54 metres, at Rocky Point 2.36 metres, and the Buffalo River at Lake Buffalo 2.14 metres, all steady. The King at Cheshunt read 1.18 metres at 9.27am. At Docker Road Bridge it is expected to stay below the minor level of 3.70 metres, which is why the Bureau has closed the King out.
A final warning is the last bulletin the Bureau issues on a river for a given event.
The two western rivers that were still at moderate on Friday came back to minor at midday on Saturday. The Avoca at Charlton Town was 4.14 metres and steady at noon, a little above the 4.00 metre minor level, with the gauge downstream of the town falling. Quambatook, further along, may reach around its minor level of 2.00 metres on Monday morning. On the Richardson, Donald Town was 2.37 metres and steady against a minor level of 2.20 metres, and the gauge upstream of the town was falling. The next Richardson bulletin is due by 12.30pm on Sunday.
The Kiewa, the Goulburn and the Loddon are also on minor warnings. The road weather alert that had been current for Melbourne was cancelled.
Nothing else on land is under a Bureau warning anywhere in the country except one stretch of the New South Wales coast. A hazardous surf warning issued at 3.24am on Sunday covers the Illawarra, Batemans and Eden coasts until midnight, with surf and swell expected to be dangerous for rock fishing, boating and swimming. NSW Police Marine Area Command advice is to stay out of the water, keep off ocean-exposed rock platforms, and delay boat trips across bars and shallow water.
Marine wind warning summaries are current for Western Australia and Queensland, and six ocean wind warnings apply in Metarea 10.
The Victorian state forecast issued at 4am on Sunday has a high pressure system west of Tasmania drifting east to sit over the state's south, then out into the Tasman Sea early in the week. Sunday brings fog and frost patches, with isolated light showers confined to the coast and far East Gippsland. Monday is similar, with a chance of brief showers about central and western districts in the afternoon.
The next rain arrives with a trough that crosses South Australia on Tuesday and Wednesday before passing south of Victoria. Patchy rain is forecast to spread from the west on Wednesday, with the chance of a thunderstorm in the north west late in the day. Current river heights and road closures are published on the Bureau's Victorian warnings page and at VicEmergency.
