After a few days of seriously miserable weather, today across the south-west will be cloudy with a few showers and tops around 14 degrees.

There's a high (80 per cent) chance of showers, most likely in the late morning and afternoon. Winds will be north-westerly 25 to 35 km/h.

A broad west to north-westerly airstream will persist across the state as a high pressure system passes to the north early this week.

The north-west to northerly flow will strengthen on Tuesday ahead of a vigorous cold front forecast to move across Victoria on Wednesday.

A second high pressure system will drift across the north following the front, with a ridge extending over the state on Thursday.

At 7.30am on Monday in Warrnambool it was a balmy 10.2 degrees, felt like 5.2 and since 9am Sunday we've had just 0.6mm of rain.

Warrnambool is expecting a top of 16 degrees, Hamilton 14, Colac 14 , Ararat 13, Casterton 15, Mortlake 15, Heywood 15, Portland 15, Port Fairy 16, Terang 14 and Camperdown 13.

For the week ahead, things are OK - after a bump on Wednesday.

On Tuesday Warrnambool is expecting a cloudy 16, we can look forward to a thunderstorm and top of 12 on Wednesday, Thursday will be partly cloudy 15, Friday cloudy 14, Saturday showers 15 and Sunday showers 12.

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