Pray for your Victorian friends, rest-of-the-country folks. Winter is hanging on for dear, grim-ass life down here. The past two mornings have been bone-chillingly cold, despite this time of year ordinarily being the start of a period where people start having actual hope of wearing shorts again one day soon. In Melbourne in particular, the mornings have been so cold that they’ve eclipsed marks not seen since before John Farnham released You’re The Voice.
Yep.
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At Melbourne Airport, temperatures dipped below freezing, hitting a low of -1.9 degrees at 6:30am this morning, causing frost to crest planes on the runway. That alone represents the coldest morning recorded at the airport since 1986. 32 years ago.
Essendon Airport didn’t fare much better, with temps spiralling even lower to a morning minimum of -2.4. Which is, to quote the scientific nomenclature, fucking cold as shit.
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A bit cold but worth getting out for a walk this morning #melbweather #melbourne pic.twitter.com/jEcSuI23gD
— Daniel Fogarty (@danfogarty80) August 28, 2018
Why Melbourne? pic.twitter.com/sBZR2WVKpF
— Angela (@greyang) August 28, 2018
Seriously icy this morning in Melbourne. Just hurry up and snow! ❄️ pic.twitter.com/HHVJp7Occ2
— Blair Hughes (@MrBlairHughes) August 28, 2018
This morning’s bone-chilling start saw temperatures in Melbourne city dip to an overnight low of just 0.9 degrees at 7:00am this morning. That alone makes it the coldest temperature recorded this late in the year since 1957, which is a fairly remarkable statistic.
Wow – wasn’t it cold overnight around #Victoria? As low as -9.8C at Mount Hotham. In #Melbourne the city saw 0.8C, the coldest so late in the year since 1957 (0.3C). 🥶 The light winds and clear skies will persist today. Check your local minimum today at: https://t.co/5iVORfs68W pic.twitter.com/ESkQWGoHct
— Bureau of Meteorology, Victoria (@BOM_Vic) August 28, 2018
Frost and ice were a fixture of the morning, kissing grasslands and icing up car windscreens across virtually the entire city region.
Melbourne, you is pretty … damn cold this morning! ❄️☃️ @abcmelbourne pic.twitter.com/1EFcCCWluy
— James Hancock (@jameshancockABC) August 28, 2018
https://twitter.com/NyphenGaming/status/1034565771119058944
Do not use HOT water on your windscreen this morning.. Cold or luke warm water only. pic.twitter.com/iweYGGazRa
— ABC Melbourne (@abcmelbourne) August 28, 2018
The warmest overnight temperature recorded anywhere in Victoria by the Bureau of Meteorology last night was at, of all places, Wilson’s Prom, which managed a positively balmy 7 degrees.
The good news is that the bastard-like morning starts appear to be over, with an overnight low of 5 predicted for tonight, followed up by lows of 10 and 10 to round out the week thanks to a band of rainy weather rolling through.
From there, with Spring officially starting on Saturday, the weather looks set to start getting slightly warmer.
We’re almost through it, mates. We’re almost bloody there.
