Hail on Victoria Street, Macedon on Thursday evening. Credit:Christine Garvey

Snow has dusted parts of the state, coming as Melbourne copped a battering by strong winds for the third consecutive.

A brief and hard hail storm fell at Mount Macedon as the mercury dropped early Thursday night with the Bureau of Metrology predicting snow down to 700 metres overnight.

Dumps of fresh powder are also on the way for the Alpine regions of Victoria and the chilly conditions are due to continue.

"It will be sunny first thing [Friday] morning but it will be followed by quite a lot of showers and really unpleasant conditions only getting up to a top of about 12," Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Stephen King said.