Wangaratta, other major centres in the North East, and in fact most of Victoria was drier and slightly colder than normal for the month of September.

The one exception was Wilsons Promontory which had well above average rainfall - its 186mms the wettest for September since 188mms in 2017.

Wangaratta's rainfall of 21.2mm last month was well below the September average of 52.6mm and the second successive month of less than 25mms.

Our wettest September day was 9mms on Wednesday, 17 September and we had rain of seven of the 30 days.

Our coldest morning was minus 2.3 degrees on 5 September and our coldest day was 10 September when we only reached a maximum of 13.5 degrees.

In contrast, our warmest minimum temperature was 10.9 degrees on the 8 and 16 of September, and our maximum temperature of 25 degrees was on Friday, 26 September.

Wangaratta's mean maximum temperature of 17.7 degrees last month was spot on the average, while the mean minimum temperature of 4.2 degree was cooler than the average of 4.6 degrees.

Our city's August-September total rainfall of 43mms is the sixth driest in the last 143 years - the others being 38.9mms in 1982, 36.4mms in 1977, 13.2mms in 1944, 28mms in 1914, and 38mms in 1902.

Wangaratta's rainfall of 341.4mm for the first nine months of this year is well below the average of 458.1mm over the past 38 years of records.

Other major centres in North East Victoria had around half their September average rainfall and their mean maximum temperatures of around 17.5 degrees and mean minimum temperatures of around 4.5 to 5 degrees were all about half a degree below normal.

Up north at Cairns and Innisfail, September was much wetter than average, which was similar to 1944 and 1914.

Brisbane however, only had 0.8mms which was its driest September since 1987 and the fourth driest in 185 years of records.