Melbourne shivers through coldest start to the day this year

Melburnians have shivered through the coldest overnight low so far this year, as a slow-moving low-pressure system brings icy mornings and even colder nights.

Melburnians shivered through the coldest overnight low so far this year. Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui

Victorians have woken to icy conditions on Wednesday morning, with many parts of the state recording the lowest overnight temperatures so far this year.

Melbourne Olympic Park recorded its coldest temperature so far in 2024 – a low of 1.4C about 8am.

Melbourne Airport reached a low of 0.2C about 6am, while Moorabbin Airport also plummeted to 2.5C overnight.

Scoresby, 29km east of the CBD, reached just 0.1C about 1am. In Melbourne northeast, Viewbank recorded a low of -1.9C.

In regional Victoria, Swan Hill recorded -1.4C, Stawell in the state’s west reached -2.6C and Ballarat, -3.6C.

Frost at Hyde Park in Kew East. Picture: Supplied

Frost covers a car in Melbourne’s outer suburbs. Picture: NewsWire

The freezing temperatures are due to a low-pressure system slowly moving across the eastern third of the country, bringing icy mornings and even colder nights.

It comes after Melbourne previously had its second lowest temperature overnight of 3.6C on Tuesday. The coldest before this was on Saturday at 4.1C.

Coldstream – 36 km northeast of Melbourne – recorded a significant low of -3.9C on Tuesday. It hasn’t been this cold in Coldstream since August 2018.

National Weather Update: Cold weather continues across Australia, and widespread frost in the east. Video current as of 12:30pm AEST Tuesday 18 June 2024.

Latest: https://t.co/jlOoTZLz8d or the BOM Weather app. pic.twitter.com/BS19l0NF0J

— Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (@BOM_au) June 18, 2024

Melbourne previously had its second lowest temperature overnight of 3.6C on Tuesday. Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui

Melbourne will reach 13C on Wednesday with partly cloudy conditions before plummeting overnight again to 4C.

Thursday and Friday will see maximum temperatures of 13C, followed by 14C on Saturday and Sunday.

Thursday and Friday will likely see light showers of up to 1mm in the city.

Some regional Victorian residents said it was so cold it “hurt to breathe”.

“When the news is talking about how cold Melbourne is this morning I’m going to be thinking about my weather in regional Victoria this morning, it hurts to breathe,” one user wrote online.