Bureau of Meteorology statistics show January was the warmest month in the Wimmera, with an average maximum of 31.6 degrees for Horsham and Nhill and 29.5 degrees for Stawell.

The hottest day was January 13, when the temperature reached 43.9 degrees at Longerenong.

After some of the driest years on record, the region experience season-breaking rain in May.

Stawell had its wettest May ever, with 110 millimetres – it was the wettest month since January 2011.

Ararat, St Arnaud and Balmoral all had the wettest May in 27 years and Drung Drung and Longerenong had the wettest since 1992. Record rain continued in winter and Kaniva and Longerenong had the wettest July since 1995.

Grampians residents experienced a chilly -3.6 degree minimum temperature on July 13, which was the coldest day of the year.

It snowed in the Grampians on June 24 and again on July 13.

September claimed the highest rainfall in a month for 2016, and as a results parts of the Wimmera River flooded.

The wettest day of the year was September 14 when 44mm was recorded in Stawell. Horsham received 91.4mm in September, Nhill received 93.4mm, Warracknabeal received 134.1mm and Stawell received 136.2mm

September was the wettest on record for St Arnaud, Beulah, Rupanyup, Donald, Ararat, Warracknabeal, Rainbow and Stawell. Apsley had the wettest October since 1975 and Goroke and Balmoral had the wettest since 1986.

Beulah had the wettest spring ever with 249.7mm.

Rupanyup had the wettest spring since 1975; Natimuk, Kaniva, Apsley and Great Western had the wettest spring since 1992; and Longerenong and Warracknabeal had the wettest spring since 1993.

Overall, spring was cooler than average as well.

Stawell recorded its coldest spring on record, with an average of 18.3 degrees.

There were no days above 30 degrees in October for the first time in 11 years.

The hottest December day was on Christmas Day when Horsham recorded 39.3 degrees and Nhill 39.6 degrees.