Parts of the country have experienced the coldest June morning in 30 years and the cold snap is expected to last for days.
Icy conditions have swept across south-east Australia, with clear skies and cold, dry air pushed up from the Bass Strait, creating crisp winter weather that is expected to persist for days.
In metropolitan Melbourne, the lowest temperature recorded was at Viewbank, which fell to -1.9 degrees at 7am – the coldest June morning since 2013. The CBD recorded 1.4 degrees, but the apparent temperature was -2.3 degrees. In Sydney, temperatures fell to 6.6 degrees at 7.10am on Wednesday in the CBD, with the city forecast to reach a high of 16 degrees during the day.
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