Snow blanketed Orange in NSW’s Central West overnight.Credit:Kristy Mansell
The temperature hit its crisp peak on Thursday shortly after 2pm.
Bureau forecaster Helen Reid had earlier said if the city reached 11 degrees:“We won’t have seen temperatures that cold for about 25 years.”
The bureau’s Gabrielle Woodhouse said it was about 11 degrees on June 21,1995,and the current lowest maximum temperature record in Sydney for the month of June is 9.7 degrees.
“That’s from a very,very long time ago,on the 13th of June in 1899,” she said. “It[Thursday] is definitely one of the coldest days in Sydney for a really,really long time.”
The first major cold outbreak of winter has been brought about by a very slow moving,large Antarctic cold air mass that is taking its time to move across the country.
“There’s enough moisture in it for the cold air to come down as snow[in some parts of the state],” Ms Reid said.