Frosty start to spring expected throughout Tasmania
Tasmania’s first week of spring is expected to be a mixed bag, with a frosty start and warm weekend anticipated. FULL FORECAST >>
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FLOWERS are a powerful way to brighten things up following the chilly winter months, a Hobart florist says.
With spring finally in bloom, Botanical owner Kate Sice said it was a beautiful time of year.
“With the onset of spring, people start to get happier around all the colours and the perfumes,” she said.
She said some of her favourite spring and late-winter varieties included sweetpeas, hellebores, anemones, and daphne, but she also loved watching the blossoms come into bloom as the season approached.
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“You know that spring’s not far away when the blossoms start to come out,” she said.
Ms Sice said aside from losing event work and weddings, the small business been blessed to be busier than usual.
“People couldn’t go and see their loved ones for birthdays, the birth of babies, even for deaths,” she said.
“It was a way for people to still connect and give — flowers have a real emotive power.”
In terms of weather, Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Matthew Thomas said the first week of spring would be a mixed bag.
“There’s going to be areas of frost on Tuesday,” he said.
“Hobart will have a minimum of 3 degrees, but the upper Derwent Valley will be around 0 and -2. We’ll have similar cold temperatures through the Midlands and North,” he said.
On Thursday the temperature is expected to reach 18 degrees before dropping back down to 13 on Friday.
However Mr Thomas said the warm weather would pick up again over the weekend, with Sunday reaching 17 degrees and Monday reaching 19.
Wild winds are a certainty throughout Tasmania at this time of year, and Mr Thomas explained why.
“We’ve got quite cold air sitting over Antarctica and we’re beginning to see that warmth develop in the north of Australia, so when we get that warmer air heading toward us and have a cold front, we get quite a sharp temperature gradient across Tasmania which enhances the wind,” he said.
“We’re moving into that transition period, and it’s likely we’ll get windy conditions through spring.”
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