The Bureau of Meteorology anticipates warmer temperatures across the eastern half of Australia over winter, which should gladden the hearts of social media devotees complaining about the chill in Sydney, parts of inland New South Wales and Canberra.
On Tuesday the coldest June temperature in five years was recorded at Observatory Hill in Sydney. The temperature of 7.3C at 7am felt more like 0.3C, the bureau said.
The figure has been touted by people probably acclimatised to a little too much sunshine as evidence that Sydney weather is uncharacteristically cold.
But the latest climate outlook from the bureau for this winter has predicted “warmer and drier than usual” conditions across the eastern half of Australia.
“A generally drier and warmer-than-normal winter in the east, but a cooler, wetter season more likely over southern WA,” it said.
Social media users have been surprisingly vocal about the weather across much of the east coast. Many have complained about how the weather has affected their lives.
Sydney is cold this morning #trending #goodobservation
— Lee Lin Chin (@LeeLinChinSBS) May 31, 2015
4.55pm and the sun sets in the west to end another cold #winter day in #Sydney #sydneylife https://t.co/QN6JBtL4mi
— Richard W Smith (@RWS_01) June 4, 2015
quite cold in Sydney
— adam brereton (@adambrereton) June 2, 2015
Meanwhile, the weather really was cold in Canberra. Overnight on Wednesday Canberra experienced lows of -7C, and only exceeded zero degrees after 9am.
The overnight lows in Canberra were described by a bureau forecaster as a once-in-a-decade occurrence.
#ICYMI Canberra has been a bit frosty, with a run of cold mornings only seen every 10-15 years http://t.co/PGBdJYUXbd pic.twitter.com/Rmak0uxKdx
— ABC News (@abcnews) June 4, 2015
Though he looked friendly enough, some found him cold, even frosty at times. #Canberra #PeterCorlettOAM pic.twitter.com/RvW8cpf69T
— Leon Prentice (@leon_prentice) June 3, 2015
