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A wintry cold front is bringing strong winds, showers, small hail & highland snow to Tas, Vic & NSW. A large high is causing brisk winds to ease & most showers to clear in SA & southern WA, & is keeping the interior dry. Patchy rain is affecting WA's north & Qld in troughs.
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Today, 12:25AM UTC
Bitterly cold airmass brings snow, freezing temperatures to southeast Australia
Frigid temperatures have set in across southeastern Australia, with showers, small hail, snowfalls and icy winds all part of the mix on what promises to be the coldest day of 2026 to date in many locations. After a cold front ushered in a polar airmass overnight, this was the scene in the village square at Victoria’s Mt Buller ski resort, about three hours northeast of Melbourne, just after 9am. Image: Around 5cm of snow on the ground at Mt Buller on Thursday, May 7, 2026. Source: ski.com.au. How cold is it this Thursday morning? At 9am this Thursday, May 7, many temperature readings in Tasmania and the southeastern mainland were similar to what you’d expect on the coldest days of winter. For example: Notable Victorian 9am temperatures Mt Hotham was -5.3°C with an apparent or "feels like" temperature of -14.1°C due to strong southwesterly winds. Melbourne Airport was 6.2°C, with an apparent temperature of -0.2°C. Melbourne was 7.1°C with an apparent temperature of 3.7°C. Notable New South Wales 9am temperatures Thredbo Top Station was -6.2°C with an apparent temperature of -15.3°C. The site recorded Australia’s lowest overnight minimum of -6.5°C just after 8am. Cooma Airport was 1.1°C with an apparent temperature of -4.0°C. Snow was falling in the area at the time (elevation 930m), with a few flakes even reported down in the town of Cooma itself at 800m. Image: Snow also fell to lake level in Jindabyne, NSW (elevation 930m), the gateway town at the foot of the Snowy Mountains, where snow is quite rare even in midwinter. Source: NSW Live Traffic. Notable ACT 9am temperatures Mt Ginini was -4.2°C with an apparent temperature of -10.6°C. Notable Tasmanian 9am temperatures kunanyi/Mt Wellington was -3°C with an apparent temperature of -6.2°C. The tiny town of Liawenee was -0.9°C with an apparent temperature of -8°C. How long will this cold outbreak last? Image: Combined satellite and radar loop for Victoria and nearby areas for the six hours to 9:30am on Thursday, May 7, 2026. Source: Weatherzone. This is quite a powerful system for autumn, and a very cold one, but it was never destined to be a long-lived weather event. While showers and snowfalls can be expected to persist through Thursday and into Friday in Tasmania and southern Victoria, conditions will clear rapidly north of the Murray River. Indeed, steady snowfalls have already eased at Thredbo in NSW, while heavy snow showers are persisting this Thursday morning in Victoria’s southernmost two ski areas, Mt Buller and Mt Baw Baw. Heavier snowfalls at the southern mainland ski resorts are typical for snowy systems that come out of the southwest or south, where systems with a more westerly or northwesterly aspect tend to dump heavier snow at places like Thredbo, Perisher, Falls Creek and Mt Hotham. Image: Ski slopes at Thredbo just before 10am on Thursday, May 7, 2026. Source: Thredbo.com.au. What about the southeastern mainland capital cities? Melbourne was still sitting on just 7.6°C at 10am on a day when it looks like it could struggle to reach the forecast maximum of 14°C, especially if showers stick around. Melbourne received 11mm of rainfall overnight, its heaviest daily total since March. Between 9am and 10am, a further 1mm landed in the gauge. The Canberra region saw only brief light showers overnight, with no rain officially recorded in the city itself. A maximum of 12°C is forecast for today, with a string of frosty nights ahead. Adelaide is set for its chilliest day of the year to date, with a high of 17°C forecast. In Sydney, it started off as one of those typical days when locals wonder what the fuss is about down south. Then a brisk wind kicked in with a light shower in some suburbs around mid-morning, and a pleasant day with maximums in the high teens suddenly felt much cooler as the northwesterly swung around to a southwesterly.
06 May 2026, 4:20AM UTC
Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide to chill through coldest day so far this year
A burst of wintry weather will send shivers across southeastern Australia during the next two days, with some places to have their coldest day so far this year and snow to reach low levels in several states. A cold pool of air will spread across southeastern Australia on Wednesday and Thursday as southwesterly winds develop in the wake of a cold front. This surge of polar air will cause temperatures to plummet, with blustery winds and showers exacerbating the wintry conditions. Image: Forecast 850 hPa temperature and mean sea level on Thursday morning, showing cold air over southeastern Australia in the wake of a cold front. Source: Weatherzone. Melbourne is forecast to reach a maximum temperature of 14°C on Thursday, although most of the day will feel colder than about 8°C due to wind chill. Until this week, the city’s coldest day so far this year was 15.8°C on April 18. Thursday’s forecast maximums of 12°C in Canberra and 17°C in Adelaide would also be their coldest days so far this year. Other relatively cool maximum temperatures forecast for Thursday include 13°C in Hobart and 19°C in Sydney. In addition to the winter-like temperatures, showers of small hail and snow will blanket some areas in southeastern Australia from late Wednesday into Thursday. Snow could reach as far north as the Central Tablelands in New South Wales and is also likely to fall in parts of Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory. The air could become cold enough on Thursday for snow to reach down to around: 500-600 metres above sea level in Tas 600-700 metres above sea level in Vic 800-900 metres above sea level in southern NSW 1100-1200 metres above sea level in the ACT and central NSW Southwesterly winds will strengthen over southeastern Australia in the wake of the cold front, becoming strongest on Thursday and Friday. Severe weather warnings may be issued for damaging wind gusts in parts of Vic, Tas and NSW, particularly near the coast and in elevated terrain. Image: Forecast wind gusts on Thursday afternoon. Source: Weatherzone. Conditions will ease from Friday into the weekend as a high pressure ridge extends across southeastern Australia, bringing calmer weather and gradually warming temperatures.
06 May 2026, 2:46AM UTC
Welcome rain for dry parts of northern NSW, southern Qld
Significant rainfall has dampened parts of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland that have experienced rainfall deficiencies over the first four months of the year, some of which are severe. Unfortunately for locals desperately scanning the skies for soaking rain, the falls have not been consistent across the affected area. However, notable 24-hour totals over the past two days included: 24 hours to 9am Tuesday, May 5 26.2mm at Gunnedah, where not a drop of rain was recorded in the previous 38 days, and only 17.4mm fell from February 1 to April 30 (long-term Feb to April average 145.9mm). 28.6mm at Narrabri, which had also endured a 38-day rainless streak, and where seven of the previous eight months have seen below-average rainfall. Isolated falls exceeding 20mm at three weather stations in the Warrego district in southwest Qld. 24 hours to 9am Wednesday, May 6 123mm at Lake Ainsworth, just north of Ballina, NSW. 104mm at Tuckombil, near Lismore, NSW. Falls exceeding 25mm at numerous locations in the ranges west of the Gold Coast. Image: Radar loop with atmospheric water vapour for the NSW North Coast and nearby areas in the early hours of Wednesday, May 6, 2026. The map below shows rainfall deciles across the Murray–Darling Basin in the first four months of 2026. Note that some areas near the NSW/Qld border have experienced their lowest rainfall on record for this period. Image: Rainfall deciles across the Murray–Darling Basin for the first four months of 2026. Source: BoM. The next map shows rainfall across Australia in the 24 hours to 9am Tuesday. You can see how rain fell across some of the areas which have been very dry this year, even if the corners of SE Queensland and NE New South Wales missed out. Image: Rainfall totals across Murray–Darling Basin in the 24 hours to 9am on Tuesday, May 5, 2026. Source: BoM. Now here’s a map of the rainfall received at weather stations across Australia in the 24 hours to 9am this Wednesday, May 6. As you can see, the corners of SE Qld and NE NSW that missed out on Monday/Tuesday got a decent soaking in the 24 hours to Wednesday morning. Image: 24-hour rainfall to 9am local time across Australia for Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Source: BoM. Has rain cleared the region now? While a few coastal showers are persisting this Tuesday around the Gold Coast, most of the rain has cleared northern NSW and southern Qld, with the main rainband now well out to sea. A clearing trend will set in across the region for the remainder of the week, with rainfall activity ramping up in regions much further south as a strong cold front whips through Tasmania and the southeast corner of the mainland on Wednesday night into Thursday.