Weather in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra: Aussies face coldest morning in five years
Millions of Australians will shiver this week during the coldest June morning in five years as winter returns with a vengeance.
A series of cold fronts will flood the East Coast with icy conditions on Tuesday as a rain system lingers over the Pacific Ocean.
Temperatures will drop below freezing in parts of Tasmania, Victoria, NSW and even Queensland on Wednesday morning.
Sky News meteorologist Alison Osborne said the record low temperatures heralded a significant cold outbreak for many parts of the country.
“Temperatures, thank God, they look chilly, even for this time of year… It’s going to be hard to get out of bed in the middle of the week,” she said.
Australians will shiver through the coldest June mornings in five years this week as winter returns with a vengeance, bringing temperatures and icy winds (Tuesday temperatures)
Millions will endure another week of ‘extreme’ winter temperatures as Aussies have been warned it could be hard to get out of bed later this week (pictured, woman soaking up winter sun in Sydney)
Mr Osborne said the cold conditions would lead to widespread areas of frost and some areas with ‘icy, freezing fog’.
Sydney and surrounding areas will shiver during the coldest June morning in five years as temperatures dip to 5°C.
Minimum temperatures barely exceed 7C-8C this weekend and similar temperatures are expected next week.
Temperatures in Canberra will drop well below freezing later this week, with Tuesday to start at -4C before warming to just 10C.
Wednesday morning it will drop even further to -5C, with -1C expected on Thursday.
By Wednesday morning, temperatures will dip below freezing in parts of Tasmania, Victoria, NSW and even Queensland (pictured, cold temperatures on Monday)
A series of cold fronts will flood the East Coast with icy conditions on Tuesday as a rain system lingers over the Pacific, leaving a mass of icy air in its wake
Temperatures in Melbourne will drop to just 4 degrees on Wednesday.
The city will receive some showers on Thursday and Friday with temperatures remaining below 10C until early next week.
Further south, temperatures will be as low as 2°C on Wednesday, with Hobart seeing some icy showers at the end of the week and over the weekend.
In Adelaide, minimum temperatures will remain below 10C all week.
On the west coast, Perth will shiver from similar cold temperatures with lows of 7C on Wednesday and 6C on Thursday.
A cold front will bring chilly showers to the state’s southwest on Tuesday after intermittent rainfall in the northwest earlier this week.
Temperatures will be milder in Brisbane, with a minimum of 8C on Wednesday, 9C on Thursday and 13C on Friday.
Darwin will have minimum temperatures in the late teens and low 20s.
Videos posted online showed skiers in blizzard-like conditions at NSW’s Perisher Valley resort, just north of Mount Kosciuszko, on Monday (pictured)
It’s because freezing conditions bring giant snowfalls to the ski resorts, with visitors to the Perisher Valley resort making the most of blizzard-like conditions.
Perisher officials said 1 inch of snow was dumped on ski fields overnight.
Temperatures as low as -5.7C were recorded at the top of Perisher’s express ride.
More than 30 weather stations in NSW recorded temperatures below freezing on Monday morning – many in the Central Tablelands west of Sydney.
Australia’s coldest place on Monday was Richmond, an hour northwest of Sydney, where temperatures dropped to -6.4C.
The lowest temperature in Queensland on Monday was Oakey, 28km northwest of Toowoomba, dropping to -2.1C. Oakey also recorded the lowest temperature in the state since 2019, when it fell to -4C on Friday.