More than 38 millimetres of rain fell in the space of seven hours on Tuesday morning, inundating low lying areas and filling dry dams.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), which measures rainfall at Stawell Aerodrome, the town recorded 39.2mm.

See some of the amazing images captured and contributed in this photo gallery compiled Tuesday. 

Stawell was beset by rain just after 6am with 27mm by 9am. Another 12.2mm was recorded in the three hours that followed and a further 0.6mm that evening.

The figure of 27mm to 9am Tuesday was the biggest one day rainfall event in Stawell since October 23, 2013 when 27.8mm was recorded.

You have to go back even further to February 2013 to when the town recorded more than 39.2mm in the space of two 24 hour rainfall periods.

Add to this week's downpour last week's totals of 21.4mm and Stawell's cumulative rainfall total for the month of January 2015 is 66.2mm.

This is almost double the long term average and more than three times as much as the rainfall that was recorded for all of the same month last year.

The rain has come as a New Year blessing for Stawell region farmers who had been counting the cost of some of the driest conditions in decades.

Campbells Bridge farmer Ian Hyslop said he couldn't recall the last time he received so much rain in such a short period of time.

"We had about 13mm at the end of last week and another 36mm this week," he said.

"I couldn't tell you the last time we would have had falls that were as big as that. I'd have to look up the chart."

Stawell suffered its fifth driest year in recorded history in 2014, with just 287.2 millimetres of rain.

This month's break in the weather has given farmers cause for hope after three consecutive years of below average rainfall.

"It probably isn't the right time, but we certainly won't knock it back," Mr Hyslop said.

"It is welcome rain, it has put a bit of water in the dams and allowed us to work a couple of the paddocks."

Tuesday's torrential rain led to altered road traffic conditions and minor flooding at many locations including Cato Lake and Federation Park.

Stawell State Emergency Service (SES) Deputy Controller, James Treloar said the town faired reasonably well considering the severity of the rain event.

“We were extremely lucky considering the strength of some of the winds and the amount of rain that fell in such a short period of time,” he said.

“The main issue for us continues to be the maintenance of properties, residents having not cleared out their gutters.”

Three members of the Stawell unit were called to remove a tree that had fallen across Delleys Bridge on Grampians Road in Halls Gap.

SES crews also attended damage to a building in Glenorchy - the cause of that due mainly to the gutters at the property being blocked.

They also responded to two jobs relating to minor flooding in the vicinity of the Western Highway at Stawell.

Blocked drains at a property lead to floodwaters impacting one property, while damage occurred to another building as a result of the same thing.

Stawell has already recorded its wettest January since 2011 when 172.4mm of rain fell and lead to devastating flooding across the region.

Mount William in the Grampians still proved to be the region’s wettest location this week with 40.6mm of rain in the 24 hours to 9am Tuesday. 

Another 43.6mm fell the following day, taking its cumulative monthly rainfall total to 88.4mm.

Great Western has also shared in the rainfall with the more than 50mm that fell during a two-day deluge last week complimented by further falls this week.

The Ararat region wasn’t immune to the wet weather either with consistently steady falls over the last week.

Unlike Stawell, its biggest falls were recorded in the 24 hours to 9am Wednesday when 21.4mm fell.

According to the BOM, which records its figures at the Hopkins Correctional Centre, the town received slightly less than Stawell over the two day period earlier this week but has so far received a cumulative total of 69.8mm for the month of January.