Cold but no records broken

The wet weather is finally over but keep your winter coats handy because the cool temps are here to stay

IF you've spoken to anyone on the streets across the South Burnett in the past five days, a similar topic has probably cropped up - the weather

As the week progressed, the South Burnett's weather has got cooler and wetter although the weekend and next week is forecast to provide a sunny break to the recent cold, drizzly days.

Weather Bureau forecaster Gavin Holcombe said despite daily temperatures failing to reach 20 degrees, no temperature or rainfall records have been broken in the South Burnett.

"So far no records have been broken," he said.

"Rainfall in winter doesn't occur too often in the South Burnett, but the region has definitely seen Junes like this before. The last time the region saw this much rainfall in a June was 2007; they're rare, but not impossible."

Mr Holcambe said the freezing temperatures in the day had been a result of low pressure systems from the north pushing cold winds down south combined with extensive cloud cover.

"There has been an upper trough with cloud cover building up around it," he said.

"The past five days have been well below average for temperatures, but the nights have been slightly warmer.

"What most of the state has been getting is cloud cover that keeps the heat out during the day which lowers the maximums and during the night the cloud cover has been keeping in the heat and driving the minimums up."

Kingaroy peanut farmer Rob Patch said the last five days of rainfall would provide for next season.

"We've already harvested this year so it doesn't affect us at the moment, but the rainfall lately will help for next season," he said.

Originally published as Cold but no records broken