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Anthony Sharwood, 03 Feb 2023, 3:16 AM UTC

Heaters in Melbourne, air conditioners in Sydney

Heaters in Melbourne, air conditioners in Sydney

It's absolutely freezing by summer standards in Melbourne this Friday, and to add insult to injury, it's a dry, warm, summer day in Sydney.

  • Morning temperatures in Melbourne peaked at 15.9°C at 10:32 am.
  • By midday it was just 13.4°C.
  • The mercury had plummeted further by 1 pm, sitting on just 11.7 miserable degrees.

Persistent showers with even occasional small hail have combined with a cold polar airmass to deliver the frigid Friday to Melbourne, and as mentioned in our story earlier today, it is snowing up in the mountains.

Melburnians have even confessed to switching on the heating as early afternoon temperatures hover around the average daily maximum for July (13.5°C), which is the coldest month of the year.

The cold air has now swept right across Victoria, as indicated on the live temps map below, which was taken at 1:10 pm.

As you can see, the cool temps have also penetrated into most of southern and western New South Wales, but not to the east and northeast of the state. So you've got the unusual situation where Sydney is currently almost 10 degrees warmer than Broken Hill.

Indeed the temperature gap between the coldest and warmest spots in NSW at the time of writing this story was a whopping 35.4°C. This is a feature you’ll find on the right-hand side of the page on our desktop site. You can adjust it for your state.

But as mentioned, the main story right now is the extremely cold weather in Melbourne and all of Victoria, and the air in the wake of this front will keep things cool for several days, with max temps in the low 20s for Melbourne until the middle of next week.

If it's any consolation at all, the showers and hail should start to ease later today.

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