Predictions of heavy rainfall that could cause flooding in the south-west across Friday and the rest of the weekend tapered off.
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Despite the central and east parts of the state still facing wet weather warnings, by Friday night the region was just looking at a drizzly, cool weekend.
A Bureau of Meteorology forecaster said Warrnambool was likely to see around five millimeters of rain on Saturday.
“The system has been a bit more mobile and moved to the east,” he said.
“It’s still going to be pretty wet and cold tomorrow.”
The forecaster said Saturday would bring temperatures in the mid to late teens, with a mostly cloudy day, with Sunday bringing similar conditions.
Warrnambool SES unit controller Giorgio Palmeri said Friday had been quiet, and it looked like the south-west had escaped the worst of the wild weather.
The unit responded to a house with a leaking roof in Koroit Street on Thursday evening after a thunderstorm passed through.
“The forecast is still for Saturday being the worst, not so much for the south-west but for the metro and north-east areas,” Mr Palmeri said.
Two members of the Warrnambool rescue team were being dispatched to help out in other parts of the state.
An SES spokeswoman said there had been 15 calls to the service in the Barwon south-west region during the 24 hours up to Friday evening.
Between 10-30mm had been forecast to fall in the south-west Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday but Warrnambool only received about 15mm, Hawkesdale 23mm, Port Fairy 17mm, Portland 18mm, and Hamilton 11mm in the 24 hours till 9am Friday morning.
