The Victorian capital will continue to experience cold weather with 13C on Saturday and 14C on Sunday with more rainfall expected. The combination of a very cold air mass, clear skies, and light winds provided the ideal conditions for temperatures to plummet in Victoria and NSW on Wednesday night. ... Last modified on Wed 24 Jun 2020 06.09 EDT. Darwin hit highs of 35C and a low of 25C on Friday, which will drop slightly to a maximum of 34C and a low of 21C over the weekend. Satellite measurements of the surface temperature of Antarctica, taken between 1982 and … Ski destination Mount Hotham, in Victoria's North East, is experiencing blizzards and took the crown for the coldest temperature at -4C and an even lower 'feels like' temperature of just -6.5C. Other cold temperatures around the state overnight include -3C at Strahan on the west coast, -2C at Wynyard in the north-west and -3C in Launceston. "It will probably be later on when word gets out that there is still now around and folk come up from the lowlands.". Canberra has cool to cold winters with occasional fogand frequent frosts. Meanwhile, Sydney shivered through its coldest start to May in a decade on Friday with lows of 8C and a maximum temperature of 17C. Large parts of Australia face a cold … "I don't think that would happen very often at all.". Climate averages published in the Australian Weather Calendar are calculated from data … This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. The Victorian capital is having its coldest start to May in 40 years with a forecasted maximum temperature of 12C that 'feels like' just 7C. Meteorologist Simon Louis said it was colder than an Australia Antarctic research station. What was the coldest day in Australia? Even the Northern Territory has been slightly affected by the cold front as it kicks off its dry season, which will last until October. At 10am, the temperature was 6.3C but the 'feels like' temperature was a whopping 10C lower at -3.4C. "Casey station in Antarctica it only got to -12, so it was actually colder up at Liawenee than it would have been at least at Casey in Antarctica last night," he said. 'At the moment, we have a very cold outbreak across the south east from well south of the country from the Antarctic,' the Bureau of Meteorology's Dean Narramore said. Parts of Australia are shivering through the coldest-ever start to May in recorded history. 'It's one of those cases where all of the ingredients are coming together for a very cold outbreak. The previous record for Tasmania was -13C at Tarraleah and Butlers Gorge back in 1983. One is the local cop, Senior Constable Dan Adams, who has been kept busy in the past couple of days after heavy snow. 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People in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, ACT, South Australia and even Queensland woke up to chilly temperatures on Friday morning - and it's set to get even colder over the next week. Melbourne is set to experience its coldest ever start to May if the temperature does not exceed 12.1C. 'Northern Queensland and the Top End are still hot but they will be 2-6C below average over the coming days as this front moves further up.'. The cold front will move from the south east and reach as far as Northern Queensland and the Top End, although it will be much less intense once it travels that far. 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Michael Lasko from the Bureau of Meteorology said the Liawenee temperature was 2C colder than the town's previous record low of -12.2C, made back in 2013.