BENDIGO residents are waking to gardens soaked by 16mm of rain.
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Much of it fell in three-and-a-half hours over midnight.
Redesdale was even luckier. It's Bureau of Meteorology weather station recorded 26mm.
Results for Maryborough and Echuca were still to be finalised at time of writing.
More showers are possible throughout the next few days in Bendigo, the BOM believes.
Weather conditions have been easing after a very dry summer that brought foward extreme fire danger earlier than usual, including a code red day in central Victoria last November.
The BOM expects climate drivers to remain neutral over autumn, with a clearer picture of whether they have "reset" by winter.
At that time, it expects to get a sense of whether the conditions experienced last summer could return.