Milestone nears with heavy Melbourne rain

Heavy rain across Victoria has prompted multiple flood warnings, while Melbourne's October rainfall is about to exceed the entire year's average.

Richard Russell from the Bureau of Meteorology said on Friday the state's capital was about to hit a significant milestone.

The average rainfall across the city prior to October totals 648.3mm, but rainfall just for October is only 1.1mm off that number.

"By end of next week we should have ticked over," Mr Russell said.

He said 2011 was the last time such heavy rain was recorded and before that, similar weather hadn't been seen since 1996.

In the last few days, Mt Buffalo has received the most rain in the state at 130mm, followed by Mt Buller and Mt Hotham with 124 and 113mm respectively.

There are minor flood warnings for the Yarra, Glenelg, Upper Barwon, Goulburn, Ovens and King, Broken, Kiewa and Macalister rivers.

Other than light rain in southeast Gippsland and the Otways, most other areas are not forecast to have rain on Saturday.

Damaging westerly winds lashed parts of the state on Friday, with peak gusts of 90km/h on the Bass coast and parts of the Central coast.

Meanwhile, Tasmania has also copped a drenching over the past two days but further heavy falls are not expected.

The highest totals over the past 48 hours to 9am on Friday have come in the state's north at Gray (175mm), Irishtown (164mm) and Pyengana (95mm).

It has prompted moderate flooding on the South Esk River at Fingal, with the water rising to 5.8 metres earlier on Friday.

Other flood warnings are current for Meander, South Esk, North Esk, Macquarie, Jordan, and Coal rivers.

Riverine flooding is likely to continue into the weekend as showers contract to the west before another cold front crosses on Monday night.