Cold temperatures Engulf Australia’s east coast

Written by Adam McCleery on July 16, 2018. Posted in Current News

The east coast of Australia is suffering through an icy weekend with the frosty temperatures expected to last into the middle of the week.

The lowest temperature recorded in Sydney was at Penrith, which dropped to below zero degrees, recording -0.9C at 5am on Sunday morning and not reaching above 1C until after 8am.

Other areas of Sydney to record low temperatures were 4.5C at Sydney Airport and 5.1C at Sydney’s Observatory Hill A strong westerly wind of 24km/h overnight played a role in causing the icy temperatures across the state. Sydney recorded temperatures as low as 4.5 degrees at Sydney Airport and 5.1 degrees at Sydney’s Observatory Hill

The east coast of Australia is suffering through an icy weekend with the frosty temperatures expected to last into the middle of the week. Inland New South Wales is also suffering through the cold with Wagga Wagga recording morning temperatures of -0.3C.

A number of other regions in New South Wales recorded below zero temperatures including Richmond, 63.4km from Sydney, which had overnight temperatures of -3.8C.

While Camden, 65km south west of Sydney, recorded overnight lows of -4.3C, the lowest overnight temperatures for the area since June 2010.

Bathurst, located 200km from Sydney, recorded freezing temperatures of -8.1C and did not break the minus temperatures until 10.20am when it recorded 0.4C.  The lowest forecast temperatures for all of New South Wales for all of Sunday is at Thredbo, expected to reach a daily maximum of only 1C.

And according to Bureau of Meteorology Senior Forecaster Jake Phillips the east coast’s glacial conditions have yet to reach their trough.

‘Just about the whole state is cooler than average for this time of year. In some parts of the state it can be five or six degrees below average,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.

‘Places like Penrith and Richmond the next couple of mornings are going to be down to the zero mark – maybe even below zero.

One Canberra resident shared a photo of what the cold snap did to a leaky tap overnight

‘And it’s going to get even colder, with a lot of places set to be six or even eight degrees below average for their minimum temperatures over the weekend.’

Melbourne temperatures weren’t quite as low as Sydney but that doesn’t mean Melburnians weren’t suffering through the cold snap.

Residents woke to temperatures as low as 7C on Saturday morning with a daily high of 9.3C.

Elsewhere in eastern Australia, the notoriously frosty city of Ballarat in central Victoria had its coldest July day in 24 years this week recording a maximum of 5C on Wednesday, one degree below the July average.

Read more at www.dailymail.co.uk

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