An uncommon climate occasion noticed the New South Wales seaside city of Byron Bay resemble a Winter wonderland on Tuesday as south-east Queenslanders additionally shivered via chilly situations.
About 10cm of hail blanketed Byron Bay's CBD in white snow-like ice after a storm triggered by a heat trough over Queensland collided with a mass of chilly air heading north simply after 5pm.
The Bureau of Meteorology mentioned the "uncommon" occasion delivered 32mm of rain in some areas in addition to remoted bursts of small hail, centred on Byron Bay.
BoM meteorologist Steven Hadley mentioned a excessive stress system within the Nice Australian Chunk had triggered Queensland's chilly snap.
"Directing a chilly southerly air mass throughout jap Australia, that is the explanation for the drop in temperatures after yesterdays (Tuesday's) rainfall," he mentioned.
Queenslanders are anticipated to really feel the chilliness proceed within the coming days, with colder mornings anticipated for the subsequent few weeks.
"We'll see these frosty situations within the morning extending north, so up into Central Queensland tonight and tomorrow night time, then up into the Atherton Tablelands on Friday morning," Hadley mentioned.
On Wednesday morning, Applethorpe within the Southern Downs area was Queensland's coldest city at -1.2C with winds triggering a feels-like temperature of -3.8C.
Charleville within the outback recorded -1.2C with a feels-like temperature of -3.6C.
Within the far north city of Burketown it was 8C with 12.7C recorded in Cooktown, the coldest morning in area since 2020.
In Brisbane, the morning temperature was 8C, two levels beneath common.