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Today, 4:23AM UTC
Warmest May on record for Tasmania and Hobart
Tasmania and Hobart just had their warmest May on record based on maximum temperatures, with Victoria and New South Wales also having an exceptionally warm month. Unusually high pressure over New Zealand in May helped shield Tasmania from cold air and early-season frontal systems. This blocking pattern also caused air to flow over abnormally warm water in the Tasman Sea before reaching Tasmania, further insulating the state from pre-winter cold spells. Image: Mean sea level pressure anomalies in the Southern Hemisphere during May 2026. Source: Bureau of Meteorology. Tasmania’s state-averaged maximum temperature in May was 14.64°C, which was 2.24°C above the 1961-1990 average. The previous record maximum temperature anomaly for Tasmania was +1.87°C from 2007, with data available back to 1910. Hobart also set a record for daytime warmth last month. The city’s average maximum temperature during May was 17.38°C, beating the previous record of 17.30°C from 2007. Remarkably, even Hobart's coldest day in May reached 12.1°C – equal to the highest 'coldest day' on record for the month, matched only in 2007. May also capped off Hobart’s warmest autumn (March to May) on record, with a seasonal average maximum temperature of 19.43°C, beating the old record from 2016 by 0.22°C. Hobart’s maximum temperature data dates back more than 140 years to 1882. Warm across southeastern Australia May was an abnormally warm month for large areas of southeastern Australia, particularly when combining both minimum and maximum temperatures. Image: Mean temperature deciles across Australia in May 2026. Source: Bureau of Meteorology. Victoria and New South Wales both registered their second warmest Mays on record based on mean temperatures, with anomalies of +1.87°C and +2.04°C, respectively. These were only beaten by 2007. Sydney had its second warmest May on record based on mean temperature, with an average of 18.19°C for the month. This was only just behind the record of 18.22°C from 1958. The city’s average minimum temperature of 14.51°C in May 2026 was a new record by more than half a degree. Sydney’s temperature observations date back more than 160 years to 1859. How does this May fit into longer-term trends? Mays have been getting warmer across southeastern Australia in recent decades. According to data from the Bureau of Meteorology, the mean May temperature in southeastern Australia has increased by around 0.11°C per decade during the last 117 years, equivalent to almost 1.3°C of warming between 1910 and 2026. Image: Long-term May mean temperature trend for southeastern Australia. Source: Bureau of Meteorology. This warming trend is likely to have contributed to the record-breaking temperatures seen in parts of southeastern Australia during May 2026. However, it was not the only factor, with local weather patterns also playing a big part in making last month so warm.
Today, 1:12AM UTC
Severe weather warnings for damaging winds in four states
A strong low pressure system and associated cold front are funnelling wild winds across southeastern Australia this Tuesday, with severe weather warnings for potentially damaging winds issued for parts of Victoria, South Australia, and New South Wales and the ACT. Meanwhile in Western Australia, an approaching cold front will also cause strong winds along the coastline in the state’s far southwest, as wintry systems lash both ends of southern Australia. But by far the most dynamic weather event affecting Australia this Tuesday is the deep complex low pressure system which is centred over the eastern part of the Great Australian Bight and slowly tracking further east. This system has already generated extremely strong winds in some locations, including an overnight gust of 133 km/h at Thredbo Top Station (Australia’s highest weather station at 1965 m above sea level). Where will winds be strongest on Tuesday? Coastal and elevated parts of southeastern Australia can expect the strongest winds on Tuesday. In South Australia, the West Coast can expected damaging wind gusts up to 90 km/h, while the Flinders Ranges and Mount Lofty Ranges can expect gusts of 100 km/h. In Victoria, the alpine region can expect gusts approaching 100 km/h in strength. In New South Wales, damaging wind gusts can be expected along much of the Great Dividing Range all the way up to the Northern Tablelands, with further gusts exceeding 100 km/h likely in the Snowy Mountains. Please check updates on the Weatherzone warnings page. Widespread shower activity to continue Image: Satellite and radar loop for the eight hours to 9:30am (AEST) on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. Source: Weatherzone. Widespread showers are soaking the southeast this Tuesday, from Ceduna in SA’s West Coast forecast district, right across Victoria, northern Tasmania, and central and southern NSW all the way to Sydney. The ongoing showers follow some very handy falls recorded in the 24 hours to 9am Tuesday, including: Five locations in Victoria’s Northern Country and North East forecast districts topped 50mm, with a high reading of 65.4mm at Charnwood, a rural locality near the small town of Strathbogie. The Adelaide Hills saw the heaviest rainfall totals in SA, with a very useful 52.6mm at Warren Reservoir, one of Adelaide’s water supply dams. Mt Gambier in far southeastern SA had its heaviest daily rainfall in more than two years with 29.6mm. At least three locations in the western foothills of the Snowy Mountains in southern NSW topped 25mm. One part of the country where today’s rain will not be welcomed by many locals is the snowfields. As discussed in our story on Monday, a period of warming was always on the cards between last weekend’s light dusting and the heavier snowfalls predicted for this Wednesday and Thursday. For example, Thredbo Top Station was -2.6°C at 10 am on Monday, while it was 1°C with drizzle at 10 am on Tuesday. It’s always a fine line between snow and rain in Australia, and we’re on the wrong side of the line for snow this Tuesday. Another 24 hours or so, and that will begin to change. For the latest snow forecasts, snow cam images and more, please check the Weatherzone snow page, which is updated every day during the 2026 winter.
01 Jun 2026, 4:45AM UTC
Which part of Australia had the coldest start to winter?
Today, June 1, marks the first day of winter in Australia. For many, it was a fittingly cold start to the season, with temperatures dropping below zero degrees in four states and territories and even dipping to a nippy 1.1°C in Queensland. The coldest place in Australia on the first morning of winter was the town of Cooma in NSW, where the temperature dropped to -4.5°C early on Monday morning. This was only slightly lower than Victoria’s lowest temperature of -3.1°C at Mount Hotham. Other sub-zero places on Monday morning included the ACT’s Mount Ginini (-2.8°C) and Tasmania’s kunanyi /Mount Wellington, which reached -0.4°C. Queensland was only a few shivers away from reaching zero degrees, with the mercury falling to 1.1°C at Oakey in the state’s notoriously chilly Darling Downs district. This was the state’s coldest start to winter in three years. The lowest temperature in SA on Monday morning was 5.3°C at Loxton. In the NT, Rabbit Flat’s 6.9°C was the territory’s coldest start to winter, while WA’s lowest temperature was 8.5°C at Jacup. Image: Lowest temperatures in each state and territory on the first morning of winter 2026. Source: Weatherzone. Some places in northern Australia had a start to winter that was enviable to those rugged up and searching for a thicker pair of socks in the country’s south. Darwin’s temperature only dropped to 18°C on Monday morning, while several tropical islands saw low temperatures in the low to mid-twenties. A weather station at Rowley Shoals, an island located about 300 km north of Port Hedland, only cooled to 25.1°C on Monday morning. In Australia’s state and territory capitals, minimum temperatures on the first morning of winter ranged from -1.1°C to 18°C: Darwin: 18°C Perth: 14.3°C Adelaide: 11.5°C Sydney: 9.3°C Brisbane: 8.8°C Melbourne: 8.3°C Hobart: 7.2°C Canberra: -1.1°C