Early June temperatures in Melbourne didn’t go above 15 degrees for first time in 70 years as cold weather pattern starts to break
The chilly weather across south-east Australia may be starting to ease, as Melbourne experiences a record cold start to winter.The chilly weather across south-east Australia may be starting to ease, as Melbourne experiences a record cold start to winter.Eastern Australia’s giant cold snap is finally breaking down but not before temperatures reached lows not seen for seven decades or longer and pushed the country’s main electricity grid to the brink.
Australian cities experienced their coldest start to winter in decades, according to the maximum daily temperature recorded in the first two weeks of June Melbourne was among the colder cities. The Victorian capital’s main monitoring site failed to breach 15 degrees during the period for the first time since 1949, Domensino said.
“Even at the end of May, there’s no way we could have known that this whole first fortnight of June was going to be this cold,” Domensino said. Brisbane, not typically equipped for chilly conditions, had its coldest start to winter since 1990, including three days when temperatures stayed below 18 degrees.