A cold outbreak and snow have hit Victoria, according to the Bureau of Meteorology on Wednesday.

It is summer now, but it snowed overnight at Falls Creek in Victoria's northeast. Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster James Taylor conceded the contrast was extreme.

"It follows close behind very hot temperatures, November records broken across the state late last week," Taylor said. "So we've had a real couple of extremes in temperature in the state in the last week."

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, cold temperatures were caused by a southerly flow of cold air mass originating from the southern ocean in Antarctica. Endi

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