Queensland has recorded its coldest night of the year to date, with a Wednesday morning minimum of –4.4°C at the small town of Injune, while  the mercury at Kingaroy fell to –3.6°C early on Wednesday morning after reaching the same low at Roma on Tuesday morning.

For those unfamiliar with Queensland geography, Injune is located about 500km from the coast in Queensland's Maranoa region at a latitude not far south of Hervey Bay, while Kingaroy and Roma are inland towns which both lie on the same latitude as the northern part of the Sunshine Coast.

So the chill from the polar airmass which brought heavy snow to Australia’s alpine region and light falls further afield has penetrated a fair way north, as illustrated in the map below.

Image: Minimum temperatures for Queensland and parts of adjoining states for Wednesday, June 11, 2025.

The lowest temperatures in each Australian state on Wednesday morning were:

Image: It's not often that Queensland has the second-coldest minimums anywhere in the country.

Apart from Queensland’s freezing temperatures, none of the overnight lows in other states could be classed as extreme by winter standards.

For the coldest nights in most parts of Australia, you need a lack of both wind and moisture to allow overnight cooling. In the alpine region of eastern Australia, it was a little windy overnight, hence minimums of only a few degrees below zero. In Western Australia, minimums in the state’s south were moderated by a cold front clipping the coastline.

Winds will start to moderate over the southeast of the country on Thursday and Friday as a weak high pressure system moves in, meaning minimums should drop a few degrees to –7°C or even slightly colder at the ski resorts.

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As for Queensland, a prolonged spell of frosty mornings should persist inland, while Brisbane should see below-average minimums in single digits until at least Saturday morning, after a low of 9.9°C on Wednesday morning.

Image: The Qld town of Roma (population approx. 7000) from the air on a less chilly morning than it had this week when the mercury dipped to –3.6°C. Source: iStock/JohnCarnemolla.

And for those wondering about the coldest temperature ever recorded in Queensland, it was a frigid –10.6°C and it occurred twice in the 1960s, once at Stanthorpe on the Granite Belt and once at the nearby Hermitage weather station.

The coldest temperature ever recorded in Australia was –23°C at the NSW ski village of Charlotte Pass on June 29, 1994. So if you needed the heavy doona in Queensland last night, maybe that statistic will provide a little cold comfort.