It’s a chilly one in southeast Australia this Thursday, after a couple of days of serious summer heat.
Temperatures plummeted to -1.8°C overnight at Mt Hotham in the Victorian High Country, which was the coldest reading of 2023 to date anywhere in Australia.
As you can see in the image below showing live temps just before 10 am on Thursday, it was still zero up at Mt Hotham after breakfast time, with temps in the teens or much lower right across Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and southeastern SA.
The streamlines (thin white arrows) on the the image above tell you most of what you need to know about the reason for the unseasonable chill. Southerly winds in the wake of a cold front have significantly moderated tempreatures, and the cool fan will stay on for the next few days.
That means that:
- Melbourne’s maximum should be just 19°C today and in the low-to-mid twenties for the next few days after hitting 37°C twice within the last four days.
- Sydney is also looking at top temps in the low-to-mid twenties after Wednesday was its first 30-degree day since February 21, 2022.
- Adelaide topped 35°C five times within six days and exceed 40°C on of those days, but it, too, will avoid temps over 30°C for at least the next two days.
- When cool weather is about, Canberra always comes to that party, and in addition to a string of days with coolish maximums for mid-summer, the national capital will see a few nights of single-digit minimums.
- Hobart will also be back to maximums in the low-twenties after toping 30°C in two of the last four days.
Enjoy the cool break if you’re living in the southeast, because there’s no doubt plenty of hot weather still to come.
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