Widespread severe frost forecast...

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Widespread severe frost forecast for weekend as Australia shivers through winter

THE cold snap is showing no signs of letting up with a high pressure system bringing little relief from winter’s icy grip

JUNE 22, 2018-4:23PM

SEVERE frost and temperatures plunging south of -5C, it’s going to be a cold weekend across much of the country.
A high pressure system brooding across the continent will bring clear skies for many places. In deep winter, that lack of cloud cover means one thing — cold nights.
Sky News Weather’s Tom Saunders said that as the sun sets, Australia will “lose heat rapidly” with Sydney and Canberra particularly chilly on the weekend.
Melbourne, Adelaide and much of Tasmania could see showers on Saturday and Sunday. A major “rain event” is headed for Queensland and New South Wales next week.
Early on Friday morning, Adelaide and Canberra shivered through their coldest mornings of the year so far. Elizabeth, in the South Australian capital’s northern suburbs, drifted down to 2.1C just before 8am; Nuriootpa, in the Barossa, bottomed out at -1.2C at 7am. Canberra struck an icy -5.1C on Friday morning.
One weather map graphically illustrates how that chilly weather is only set to continue. Bathed in purple, the map shows the march of frost across the south east this weekend — much of it severe.

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Four straight days of temperatures below minus-5 degrees in Canberra
By Blake Foden

25 June 2018 — 8:34am

For the first time in at least 10 years, Canberra has shivered through four consecutive June mornings below minus-5 degrees.
The mercury plummeted to minus-5.2 degrees at 5.30am on Monday and as if that wasn't cold enough, the temperature felt like minus-8.7 degrees.

Weatherzone meteorologist Tom Hough said the organisation's data for Canberra Airport went back to 2008, and showed no other occasions during June where the temperature dropped below minus-5 degrees on four straight days.
Mr Hough said there was some respite on the way, with clouds and showers forecast in the next few days set to warm things up.
A low of minus-3 was expected on Tuesday, and minus-1 on Wednesday. It was then set to go back to the other side of 0 on Thursday, with a forecast minimum of 3 degrees.

"We've got a broad high-pressure system centred over the South Australia/Victoria border, and that's bringing largely clear skies," Mr Hough said.
"Combined with light winds, that's what's creating these low temperatures.
"We've got some clouds and showers increasing in the next couple of days though, so this should be the last morning below minus-5."
Mr Hough said light winds would stick around for the next week or so, while no significant rainfall was expected.
"There might be only the odd spattering later in the week," he said.

"You'd only be looking at less than five millimetres on Thursday and Friday."
The ski fields should see fresh snowfall each day from Wednesday until the end of the week.
Perisher and Thredbo expect their biggest falls of the week to come on Friday and Sunday, when between two and five centimetres of fresh snow is predicted.
The next significant snowfall is expected on Saturday, July 7, with between five and 10 centimetres expected to fall at Perisher.

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