Live updates: Wild weather hits Victoria

Melbourne is in the midst of a commuter crisis with major roads, train and tram lines and routes out of the city closed due to high winds, traffic accidents, flooding and strewn debris.

The evening commute is expected to be a heavy, slow affair in all directions as fallen trees have contributed to the suspension of five train lines - Hurtsbridge, Stony Point, Belgrave, Cranbourne and Pakenham.

Trains are not running between Bayswater and Belgrave due to a fallen tree at Upper Ferntree Gully; another fallen tree near Macleod has suspended the Hurtsbridge line between Heidelberg and Eltham in both directions; and trains aren't running on the Stony Point line between Stony Point and Frankston because of a fallen tree at Tyabb.

Emergency workers are frantically trying to clear the lines in time for peak hour and replacement buses are replacing trains.