An icy blast sweeping through south eastern Australia will continue to see temperatures drop well below freezing.
The Perisher Valley in NSW reached a low of -6.6C on Tuesday morning with snow showers expected for alpine regions in NSW and Victoria on the weekend.
Melburnians shivered through their coldest June night since 2013 as temperatures dropped to 2C overnight while Sydneysiders woke up to wet roads due to heavy rain from Monday night.
Diana Eadie from the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said the cold weather is set to stick around for the rest of the week.
‘The well below average temperatures have been caused by a slow-moving high pressure system currnelly located over southern Australia,’ she told Daily Mail Australia.
‘It’s brought cool and dry weather which has allowed temperatures to plummet.’
A woman dons a puffer jacket as temperatures drop in Melbourne. Meteorologist Diane Eadie said it was ‘jumper weather or throw an extra blanket bed sort of weather’ after temperatures plummeted overnight
A woman walks near Albert Park Lake in Melbourne. A slow-moving cold pressure system has caused temperatures to drop and will continue to keep them low for the rest of the week
The coldest temperature in Melbourne was in Coldstream, where the temperature dropped to -3.6C. The city reached a maximum temperature of just 15C.
‘Cold temperatures will persist tomorrow as well, creeping up in the latter part of the week with widespread frost,’ Ms Eadie said.
‘I would say it’s jumper weather or throw an extra blanket bed sort of weather.’
For the rest of the working week Melbourne will see consistent lows of 6C to 7C and maximum temperatures of 15C to 16C.
Showers are expected by the weekend.
Omeo in East Gippsland dropped to -4.6C on Tuesday morning while Victoria’s alpine regions have been shivering through freezing temperatures.
Ms Eadie explained that the dry conditions have not been conducive for snowfall.
‘We won’t see favourable conditions for snow until the weekend,’ she said.
Mount Hotham reached a low of -3.8C on Monday night while Mount Buller was hovering around 0C this morning. Both regions can expect snow on the weekend.
Snow falls at Perisher ski resort. The Perisher Valley in NSW reached a low of -6.6C on Tuesday morning with snow expected on the weekend, as well as at Thredbo, Mount Hotham and Buller
Jodi White with her Huski ‘Revan’ trudge through snow in Mount Hotham earlier this month. The area reached a low of -3.8C on Monday night with more snow expected on the weekend
Sydney’s coldest spot was Mount Boyce where it was a chilly 4.5C on Tuesday morning while Observatory Hill dropped to 10.7C at 7am.
The recent wet weather in the NSW capital has meant that temperatures have not dropped as low as other parts of south eastern Australia where it has been dryer.
Showers are expected in Sydney on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday while NSW’s alpine regions will have clear skies for the rest of the working week.
Perisher and Thredbo will both reach lows of -3C by Saturday and experience snow showers over the weekend.
The cold weather will even creep up to Brisbane in Queensland.
‘There will be unsettled weather in Brisbane towards the end of the week with rainy areas towards the end of the weekend,’ Ms Eadie said.
In Brisbane on Wednesday, there will be a low of 15C and a high of 22C with southeasterly winds of up to 25km and showers.
Showers will continue but ease of on Thursday and Friday before similar gusty winds return on Sunday, bringing increasingly intense showers with it.
Sydneysiders caught in the rain outside of Museum Station. The recent wet weather in the NSW capital has meant that temperatures have not dropped as low as other parts of south eastern Australia
Perth has also been affected by cold weather, with residents waking up to a low of just 5.8C on Tuesday morning.
Wednesday will have a minimum of 9C and a maximum of 24C with cloudy skies.
The city will see the wildest weather out of all the capital cities with showers and storms bringing winds of up to 35km/h on both Thursday and Friday.
Showers will continue on the weekend with a temperature range of 8C to 18C on Saturday, which will slightly increase to 20C on Sunday.
Adelaidians have not escaped the cold weather either, waking up to 1.8C on Tuesday. The state’s coldest temperature came from Yunta, where it was just -5.3C at 7am.
There will be sunny weather for the rest of the working week with lows of 5C and maximum temperatures of 18C.
Showers will arrive in the city on the weekend, when the temperature will range from 9C to 17C.
A weather map showing how the low pressure system is affecting parts of Victoria, NSW, the ACT and SA
Canberra will have consistently cold weather throughout the week. From Tuesday to Friday, the low will be 0C while the top will be just 13C.
Come Saturday, the minimum temperature will increase to 3C and the maximum will also jump to 14C – but showers will also be expected.
In Hobart, residents woke up to 3.2C and cloudy weather on Tuesday before a temperatures increase to 14C.
On Thursday, there is a very high chance of showers while the minimum temperature will be 7C and the maximum will be 11C. More showers are expected on Sunday.
While the rest of Australia is kicking off winter, tropical Darwin has just begun its dry season.
The NT capital will reach a scorching maximum temperature of 33C on Tuesday, which will drop to 32C for the rest of the week.
The minimum temperature will range from 21C to 23C each morning with clear skies and sunny weather expected until Monday.