Australians are shivering through their coldest May weekend in years as a 'slow-moving' cold front sweeps across the south-east bringing snow showers, rain, and damaging winds. 9News
are shivering through their coldest May weekend in years as a "slow-moving" cold front sweeps across the south-east bringing snow showers, rain, and damaging winds.
Canberra, Hobart, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney will bare the brunt of the cold with maximum temperatures climbing to just 9, 12, 16, 13, and 17 degrees respectively. A marine wind warning has been issued for Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland and NSW from the Bureau of Meteorology .READ MORE:Weatherzone said "blustery winds" will make the temperature feel much cooler across the south-east, with Sydney set to feel as if it's "in the low teens".
Snow will continue to fall across the Australian Alps as temperatures drop between 2 and 8C below the May average."On Sunday, the heaviest precipitation looks to fall southeast of Cooma, so Nimmitabel and even Bombala are in the firing line for snow showers. It all depends on where the precipitation is heaviest, which depends on just where that low form," Weatherzone said.
Temperatures in Melbourne are set to remain low for today with a maximum of only 13 degrees forecast.The system will bring rain to other states, with Tasmania, southern Victoria, South Australia and south-east NSW expected to see the heaviest. Sydney is forecast to reach a maximum of 17 degrees today before winds increase overnight.Sydney will unlikely be warmer than 14 or 15 degrees at the beginning of the week.
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