Toowoomba coldest place in state as mercury plunges: Feels like -5C

A Toowoomba weather station recorded the coldest temperature in Queensland this morning, with the mercury plunging below zero.

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A Toowoomba weather station recorded the coldest temperature in Queensland this morning, with the mercury plunging below zero.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology at the Wellcamp weather station the temperature dropped to -2.4 degrees at 5.40am, but the apparent temperature was -5.6 degrees.

At the Toowoomba weather station at 6am the temperature dropped to 2.3 degrees but with 20kmh wind gusts it felt like -2.5 degrees.

The Garden City isn’t the only town on the Darling Downs to be feeling the cold with the mercury plummeting in several towns across the region.

It was 3 degrees at Oakey, with an apparent temperature of -4.2 degrees, and 3.4 degrees at Dalby, but it felt like -2.2.

It was also 2 degrees at Applethorpe, but felt like -2.1.

BoM forecasters have said that snow was a possibility this week on the Granite Belt due to polar air surging up from the Southern Ocean but so far none has fallen in Queensland.

Although, forecaster Jonty Hall said that today was the day for snow to fall if it was to happen.

The cold snap is being caused by an upper trough which is developing into an upper low, bringing with it freezing temperatures and strong winds.

A surface low will develop in the western Tasman Sea and remain slow moving through the end of the week, maintaining a cold, southerly air flow over much of Queensland into the weekend.