Rain returns after Melbourne Cup Day scorcher

It will also be cooler and possibly damp in Adelaide when the State of Origin rugby league match between New South Wales and Queensland gets under way on Wednesday night.

The cold front is then expected to march up the nation’s east coast and bring rain and potentially storms to NSW on Thursday.

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Sky News meteorologist Alison Osborne said a much cooler day was on the cards for southeast Australia, including Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.

South Australia is expected to be 15C to 20C colder on Wednesday than Tuesday, while the temperature in Melbourne is forecast to be 15C or 16C from Thursday until Saturday.

There’s also expected to be widespread temperatures below 20C throughout NSW and the ACT.

“Over the southeast of the country a cold front will march through the region, delivering showers and the odd storm,” she said.

“We’ll see cloud increasing and then showers moving through Bendigo and Melbourne by the early afternoon and spreading through the Gippsland region overnight.

“It will then spread through NSW (on Thursday) where we do expect to see the heavier falls from that system.”

She said the heaviest falls and chance of storms would be around the Shoalhaven, Illawarra and Hunter regions.

“Those storms are more likely to occur during the day, during the heat of the afternoon, so that’s likely during the NSW-Victorian border (on Wednesday) … before returning over northeast NSW and southeast Queensland,” Ms Osborne said.

The storms are not expected to be wild enough to prompt severe weather warnings.

But she said a high pressure system behind the cold front would deliver more fine and dry conditions by Sunday.

It comes after the weather bureau said Melbourne recorded its warmest Cup Day since 1969, and hottest day since March 19 this year, when the temperature reached 30.4C at 3pm on Tuesday.

The cool change was expected to arrive in the city by midday on Wednesday.

jack.paynter@news.com.au

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