ABC Radio conducted an icy pole test in Adelaide to see how cold it was this morning.
© Spence Denny ABC Radio conducted an icy pole test in Adelaide to see how cold it was this morning.
Did you think the first day of winter felt a little nippy? Well, if you were in Adelaide it wasn't all in your head because the city has shivered through its coldest start to the season with the temperature dropping to just 2.9 degrees Celsius.

Duty forecaster Paul Bierman confirmed the city had its equal coldest June 1 on record, a temperature not seen since 1943.

"The minimum temperature at Kent Town got down to 2.9 degrees at 6:44am this morning. It has already started to warm up slightly, we're up to 3.3 degrees," he said just before 8:00am.

He said a cold front that moved across the state earlier in the week combined with overnight light winds and clear skies to produce the chilly morning.

"[We're going to have] very cold mornings right through until at least next Sunday ... around 3 or 4C," Mr Bierman said.

"There's a chance it could creep a little bit below that but I don't think there will be any records being set for Adelaide because the all-time coldest temperature, minimum temperature, is -0.4 in Adelaide back in 1982."

ABC Radio's Spence Denny headed to Edinburgh in Adelaide's north to conduct a not-so-scientific icy pole test to gauge how cold it was this morning.

He put the icy pole in the ground at 6:45am and told the breakfast program 45 minutes later "its integrity was still in place".

"It's the equivalent of trying to fry an egg on a shovel on a hot day," Denny said.

Meanwhile at Renmark in the state's Riverland the temperature dropped to -2.9C at 6:30am, Naracoorte in the Limestone Coast dropped to -1.6C at 7:00am, while Yunta in the Far North dropped to -4.5C at 6:00am.

Adelaide is forecast to reach a top of 16C today.