It feels like since June 1, the weather has been building up to the extremes witnessed across June 8-9.

The lowest temperature in Ararat this month on the record was 3.1 degrees - registered on Sunday, June 6.

Despite no temperatures recorded on Saturday, sporting families would have been in two minds about not having to go out and brave the cold after Saturday morning sport was cancelled, due to the Victorian government-imposed restrictions.

The second week of June revealed warmer weather - with the highest overnight temperature staying at a balmy 9.8 degrees on June 7 and reaching a top of 16.4 degrees.

The Bureau of Meteorology confirmed while autumn this year had been the coolest since 2015, winter would be warm and dry.

"Some areas of Victoria have missed out on their usual autumn rainfall and could be heading into a dry winter," bureau climatologist, Dr Lynette Bettio said.

Nighttime temperatures were forecast to be warmer than usual this winter.

But the weather across June 8-9 certainly didn't make residents feel this way.

With cool daytime temperatures and cloud cover keeping the nights warmer - the warnings to batten down the hatches were taken in as the wild winds picked up.

Mt William was the talking point, reaching -0.1 at 4pm on June 8. No official reports of snow had come in at the time of publication, but plenty of reports of "it's cold enough to snow".

At 4.30am, on June 9, Mt William recorded gusts of winds peaked at 120 kilometres per hour.

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As the day wore on the wind decreased, only to pick up again in the afternoon.

The wind picked up again on Thursday morning, registering gusts over 100km/ph. Ararat's official recording of wind was a cold southerly of 56km/ph on Wednesday morning.

Ararat saw 12.4mm of rainfall on Tuesday alone, making up the majority of the total for the month of June so far. Many would have been glad to see rainfall after a drier than average autumn.

The forecast for Ararat does not include much rain.

Friday will have a top of 15 with the strongest chance of rain, at 30 per cent and Saturday, June 12 have a forecast maximum of 14 °C degrees, and be partly cloudy. Sunday, June 13 will be a bit cooler and 13°C.

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