Victorians brace for more thunderstorms, heavy rain and flash floods as wild weather continues - ABC News

More wild weather will lash Victoria on Friday, with showers and thunderstorms expected across large parts of the state. 

Key points:

• Some parts of Victoria will get heavy rain and flash floods
• The weekend will bring cooler conditions to Melbourne
• Bureau of Meteorology's Diane Eadie says La Niña has resulted in summer storms bringing much more moisture than those in previous seasons

Thunderstorm cells tore through much of Melbourne and parts of regional Victoria on Thursday, leaving thousands without power.

More than 5,000 premises were still waiting to be reconnected at 6am on Friday, with the west of the state worst affected.

Energy distributor Powercor had more than 20,000 outages at one point late on Thursday, a number which was back to about 3,500 by early Friday morning.

The west of the state was hit again late on Thursday and overnight into Friday, with Geelong experiencing flash flooding overnight.

The State Emergency Service said there were 450 calls for assistance across the state overnight.

A flooded car park in Warun Ponds, Geelong on Thursday night.(Supplied: @steveinlara via Twitter)

The busiest unit was in South Barwon, with nearby Geelong and Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula also experiencing a high number of calls.

The Bureau of Meteorology said the wild weather was likely to be repeated into Friday, and the SES was bracing for more callouts from around noon.

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Senior forecaster Mark Anolak said the day would be warm to humid, but conditions were expected to ease over the weekend. 

"[On Friday], we still have a very tropical air mass over the state," he said.

"So we are expecting showers and thunderstorms to continue, particularly across the central and eastern parts of Victoria, and that includes Melbourne.

"And, in some cases, some of those showers and thunderstorms could be quite heavy, producing some localised flash flooding."

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Street in Gisborne, north-west of Melbourne, flooded after Thursday's heavy rain.

Mr Anolak said conditions were expected to ease during the weekend in parts of Victoria. 

"The main showers and thunderstorms move to the east of the state," he said.

"So the north-east ranges in Gippsland are likely to continue to receive showers and thunderstorms.

"But for Melbourne and the western parts of the state, we'll have a cooler, drier southerly airstream, bringing us cooler conditions for Saturday and Sunday."

This ceiling in a home in Melbourne's north partially collapsed during Thursday's storms.(Supplied)

Mr Anolak said Melbourne could expect to reach a high of 25 degrees Celsius on Saturday and a top of 29C on Sunday, with more warm weather to come next week.

"There will be one or two showers Saturday morning … but the afternoon should be fine, and Sunday should be fine," he said.

On Thursday, lightning sparked hundreds of small fires across the state, with three residents from Melbourne's northern suburbs taken to hospital after their home caught alight.

Meanwhile, Mildura, in the state's north, had its wettest January day ever, with 69 millimetres of rain recorded in two hours on Thursday morning.

Yesterday, Bureau of Meteorology's Diane Eadie told the ABC the influence of La Niña had resulted in the summer storms bringing much more moisture than those in previous seasons.

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