If you thought it was cold this morning, you were right. The freshest start in Melbourne this year, in fact.
This morning’s temperature dropped to 5.4 degrees in the city. The previous low was 4.8 degrees on September 5 last year.
Melburnians got a taste of winter last week, when morning temperatures reached 6 degrees.
But the Bureau of Meteorology’s Andrea Peace said the wintry conditions would arrive right on time.
“Next week is when the cold weather starts coming through,” she said.
The clear skies and light winds that fuelled this morning’s cold will produce a mild, mostly sunny maximum of 18 on Tuesday.
Ms Peace said a cold front would clip the state on Wednesday but the cold weather would really kick in at the weekend.
Friday will see showers and a top of 15 before a cool, grey weekend.
No snow is forecast yet but Ms Peace said there was a “very good chance” of a centimetre or two from Sunday.
Dry conditions produced by El Nino could affect the quality of this year’s snow season but Ms Peace said it was too soon to tell.
“At this point it really is a waiting game,” she said.
This story first appeared in The Age
