Cold blast to bring frost to NSW, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia

Large-scale frost outbreaks will send morning temperatures plunging across four states on Monday morning, with the icy weather set to continue.

Several parts in Australia’s south east will be hit with bursts of frost as a brutal cold blast sends temperatures plunging.

Frost is forecasted for large swathes of Victoria, Sydney, the ACT and even southeast Queensland on Monday morning, with the icy temperatures likely to continue into the week.

Sky News Weather Meteorologist Rob Sharpe said this the “widespread” outbreak will begin on Sunday while “increasing in size and stature into Tuesday and Wednesday”.

“For the southeast of the country, the frost that we saw in Canberra on Saturday morning was just a taste of what is to come through the start of next week,” he said.

The frost forecast as for 7am Wednesday, with large swathes of frost expected to send morning temperatures plunging throughout the week.

In NSW, freezing temperatures on Sunday night has prompted the Bureau of Meteorology to issue a large-scale warning to sheep graziers in the Mid North Coast, Hunter, Northern Tablelands, Illawarra, South Coast, Central Tablelands, Southern Tablelands, North West Slopes & Plains, Central West Slopes & Plains, South West Slopes, Snowy Mountains forecast districts.

While Sydney will largely escape the frost, temperates will drop to a minimum of 7C and a max of 16C, with a medium chance of early showers on Monday.

South-westerly winds between 25 to 35km/h could however increase the wind chill factor and make temperatures feel colder than what they are.

Melbourne is expected to shiver through a cloudy and cold day punctuated with a high chance of showers, with a minimum of 7C and a high of 14C forecast for Monday.

Wednesday will be the coldest out of a chilly week, with the temperate to drop to 3C and a max of just 13C.

Melburnians are in for a frosty week of drizzly weather and chilly temperatures. Picture: NewsWire/ Tamati Smith

In South Australia a frost warning is in place for the Mount Lofty Ranges, Mid North, Riverland, Murraylands, Upper South East and Lower South East forecast districts, where temperatures could creep down between -2C to -4C.

In Adelaide, the BOM has predicted a mostly sunny day ranging between 4C to 15C for Monday, and a temperature range between 6C to 16C for Tuesday.

A cold front passing through southwest Western Australia will also result in storms and showers, with the heaviest rain forecast for the coastline south of Perth.

While the majority occurred from Sunday afternoon, light showers will continue into the week, with a chance of thunderstorms in Perth’s northern suburbs.

However the cold snap has bought a raft of snow to the ACT, elevated areas in Victoria’s east and NSW’s Central Tablelands above 800m.

In Thredbo, about 17cm of snow greeted skiers and snowboarders on Sunday morning, with a slight chance of a snow shower to continue on Monday morning.

Victoria’s Mt Buller ski resort also reported 16cm of fresh powder between Saturday to Sunday.

Originally published as Cold blast to bring frost to NSW, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia