There's the chance of fog early this morning and a medium (40%) chance of showers during this afternoon and evening.

Light winds will become westerly 20 to 25 km/h in the late afternoon then turning south to south-westerly 15 to 25 km/h in the evening.

At 7am in Warrnambool it was 7.7 degrees and felt like just 4.7.

Warrnambool is expecting a top of 18 degrees, Hamilton 18, Colac 18, Ararat 1`9, Casterton 19, Mortlake 18, Heywood 18, Portland 17, Port Fairy 18, Terang 18 and Camperdown 17.

A weak high pressure ridge will extend across Victoria today.

The tail end of a weak cold front will pass over Bass Strait this afternoon and overnight.

A stronger cold front will approach western Victoria later on Wednesday as an upper level disturbance crosses Victoria.

This front will cross Victoria during Thursday, leaving a cold and unstable south-westerly airstream in its wake.

A weak high pressure ridge will develop over Victoria during Friday morning but another cold front will reach western Victoria later in the day.

For the next five days we're expecting cloud and rain, 70 per cent chance of showers on Wednesday and Thursday with tops of 13, Friday and Saturday 60 per cent chance of rain, tops 16 and just 12, and Sunday a cloudy top of 14 but the chance of rain is back to just 10 per cent.

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