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Parts of Victoria have already received almost double the average rainfall this month, and some areas have recorded the wettest April in 16 years.

As Melbourne dealt with a wintry blast and rainfall that caused the closure of two train stations, the weather bureau revealed Melbourne had received 107 millimetres of rain this month.

Melbourne's average April rainfall is 57mm.

In Melbourne and Geelong, it has been the wettest April since 2001, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said.

But it was even wetter in other parts of the state, such as Hamilton, in western Victoria, where it was the wettest April in 33 years.

Bendigo, Ballarat and Seymour had the wettest April in almost 20 years.

Oakleigh South, in Melbourne's south-east, had the highest rainfall total of 38 millimetres overnight and this morning, followed by 33mm at Gardiners Creek and Ashwood.

In the Dandenongs, at Ferny Creek, there was 34mm of rain.

In the state's north-east, 54mm fell at Mount Buffalo.

Rainfall totals over the past three days include:

'Pretty nasty weather'

Scott Williams, from the extreme weather desk at the BOM said it was the coldest day so far this year, with the temperature hovering around 11C throughout the day.

And the change felt particularly brutal because up until now it had been quite humid.

"So we've gone from really humid conditions to all of a sudden dry, shivery, cold blustery conditions," he said.

"It's almost like taking a flight from Darwin to Hobart on an average day.

"It's pretty nasty weather, bordering on extreme weather, but really it's just a return to perhaps what we ought be getting now that we're in late autumn."

The cold front moved through Melbourne overnight, bringing widespread rainfall of up to 20mm across most suburbs, and up to 30mm in the city's eastern suburbs.

Metro Trains reported flooding of pedestrian underpasses at Blackburn and Burnley stations had caused some travel delays.

The water was pumped out of Blackburn and at one point, the water was waist deep at Burnley station.

Heavy rain squalls turned day into night on the Eastern Freeway about 7:00am, with traffic slowing to 60 kilometres per hour.

Hail was reported at Brighton and Rosanna, and there was thunder and lightning in Melbourne's CBD.

In ski country, that rain fell as snow, with Mount Hotham reporting up to five centimetres of snow.

Falls Creek was blanketed with snow for the second time this month, with the start of the ski season still six weeks away.

A severe weather warning for damaging winds has been cancelled.

The showers are expected to hang around throughout the evening and into Thursday.