Hot and humid weather in Melbourne’s week outlook

MELBOURNE is feeling more like North Queensland today with hot and humid weather hitting the city. It is only going to get worse with the Australia Day long weekend to be really hot.

MELBOURNE will feel more like Queensland today with the humidity making it very sticky.

The city is expected to hit a top of 26C but the humidity is at 67 per cent.

It is more humid in Melbourne than Brisbane and Cairns this today.

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Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Richard Carlyon said it was “extremely humid” and it would be even worse over the Australia Day long weekend.

“The humid conditions will ease through the afternoon with a southerly wind picking up,” he said.

“That tropical moisture moves back on Thursday and Friday. We will need to get used to the humidity.

“There is a monsoon over northern parts of the country. It is a slow moving pressure system and now it is here, there is nothing to move it.”

Melburnians hit the beach as the temperature soars. Picture: Alex Coppel

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There is a strong wind warning for the East Gippsland Coast today.

Mr Carlyon said a southerly wind would cool the state making it easier to sleep tonight with the temperature dropping to 15C before a top of 23C tomorrow.

The temperature will start its march upwards on Wednesday as it hits 26C in Melbourne.

Thursday will be 29C with an afternoon shower or thunderstorm to strike across the outer northern and eastern suburbs.

A woman gets some relief from the heat in a fountain in Garden Square. Photo: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

The fountain is the place to be to have a quick cool down. Photo: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

Australia Day will be a scorcher as it hits 35C.

But for those hosting parties in the outer northern and eastern suburbs, don’t forget some shelter as showers and thunderstorms are expected to hit.

It will be a hot weekend as it hovers at 39C with the possibility of light showers and thunderstorms.

Mr Carlyon said there was a chance of flash flooding over the weekend as the temperature and humidity stayed on the march.

Veteran long-range forecaster Dennis Luke said a trough and a monsoon were playing havoc with the weather in Melbourne.

“Mother nature is not playing fair at the moment,” he said.

“A trough and a monsoon is effecting the weather. Depending on the location of the trough/monsoon it changes the pattern and pressure system so any fronts moving from WA go to Tasmania and it pushes everything down.”