Many would have woken up this morning chilled to the bone, if it was not because of the freezing temperatures in our nation's capital then definitely the recent budget might have left a few Frozen. When the main street talk is about the National Budget, its hard to find a weather story which can catch people's imagination. The task becomes harder when a broad high sitting over the Tasman Sea is extending a ridge of high pressure across the nation. This ridge is being quite stubborn and is likely to stay put over the next seven to ten days bringing mostly clear skies and a warm spell to most of Australia. This high, is pushing south any rain bearing systems and colder air masses which dare to travel east from the Indian Ocean. Only those in the Apple Isle, who are far south enough, will see some cool temperatures and some rainfall in the coming week. The high will have profound effects as the clear skies and plenty of sunshine will likely bring the nation's May average anomaly one to two degrees above the long term average. This is likely to be enough to take May 2014 to one of the top five hottest Mays on record. Surprisingly this warm spell comes after a cold and wet snap earlier this month with snow recorded in Tasmania, Victoria and NSW. Unfortunately for the ski resorts which were anticipating a good season in light of the last week's event, this degree of warmth is definitely enough to melt any Olafs out there! Sydney has reached 22 degrees everyday since Saturday and it is forecast to continue to do so for the next seven days. The record of consecutive 22-degree days this late in the season is six days, which was set in 1974. Similarly, Melbourne has reached 20 degrees over the past three days and is likely to reach and even exceed that threshold over the next seven days. The record for consecutive 20-degree days this late in autumn is seven days, set in 1907. Seven days were also registered to June 8th 1957, which technically falls in winter. It then seems that we cannot quite turn away and slam the door on summer ... at least not yet. The warmth never bothered me anyway.