GEELONG has just shivered through its coldest July morning in six years.
The city’s official weather station recorded a minimum of -1.4C at Breakwater, although Grovedale recorded -1.9C and Avalon plunged to -2.5C.
The big freeze extended to the coast, with early morning walkers reporting lightly frosted sand on the beach at Torquay.
Geelong Weather Services’ Lindsay Smail said the cold was “not a record but very chilly.
Geelong’s lowest July minimum was in 1994 when temperatures fell to -4.3C at the city’s former airport near Mt Duneed, he said.
“These extreme cold snaps in Geelong can sometimes occur in winter when a high-pressure system to our east directs a stream of cold air from the north-west high altitudes of the Great Divide,” Mr Smail explained.
“No similar figures are expected in the next few days but winter still has a way to go.”
Geelong’s coldest morning in six years
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