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Aussies set to freeze as air 'straight from the
Antarctic ice sheet' surges towards the country

Five new polar pulses are set to hit Australia over the next two weeks as the country continues its freezing start to winter - the coldest in 124 years.

A massive surge of cold air is forcing temperatures to plunge several degrees below the June average, right across the country

The Bureau of Meteorology says even more polar blasts will hit the nation's southeast later this week, with frigid airs blowing in straight off the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Those conditions will combine with a cold, dry surge of air surging in from the Southern Ocean, which will see icy temperatures last through until next weekend.

Brisbane will see minimums as low as 6C for the rest of the week - the lowest temperatures the Queensland capital has seen in early June since 1904.