On Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, Horsham received 38.4 millimetres of rain.

Warracknabeal received 39.2mm, Nhill received 20.6mm and Edenhope received 25.4mm.

Longerenong weather statistician Brett Allender said the Longerenong weather station recorded 39.2mm in the 24 hours to 9am on Thursday.

“The long-term monthly average for November is 30.5mm, so it was exceeded in just one day after only 0.8mm had been recorded for the first half of November,” he said.

“The record high daily rainfall total for November is 47mm on November 18, 1964,” he said.

Mr Allender said it was also the highest daily total since 51.6mm was recorded on April 21 this year. 

The rain will be of concern to Mallee farmers, where harvest is well and truly underway, however further south in the Wimmera there is still have plenty of green in the crop, so it will not cause damage.

Pulse producers are hoping that the rain will help frosted chickpeas and lentils reflower, compensating for some of the yield losses.

Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Scott Williams said this week’s rain might not be the end of damp conditions for November.

“The moisture does not really push out, it will weaken, but there will be moist air over Victoria until the weekend,” he said.

“Further out, there is another trough coming in from Western Australia sometime early next week, it is too early to say whether it will deliver substantial rain, but there is the potential it could.”

Mr Williams said the weather patterns were looking like those associated with a La Niña climate.

“We are seeing all this tropical moisture pushing down regularly,” he said.

“You’ll often get one event like this in November, but it is more associated with the tail end of spring weather, this is more like the summer rain you can see with a La Niña.”