© Daniel Leal-Olivas/PAA record cold May morning has left frost and dew across Sydney, following a likely record warm autumn for New South Wales.
Autumn figures are likely to be warmest on record, but Sydneysiders wake up to frosty morningSeveral sites in Sydney have experienced their coldest May morning in 20 years, even as the city looks set to record its warmest autumn.
Less than two weeks after well above average temperatures were recorded across the eastern states, Sydneysiders awoke to record cold weather and frost on Monday.
Richmond airport had its coldest morning since 1987 at -2.1C, the coldest morning for May on record in 23 years of data. The previous was -1.4C in May 2011.
A low of 7.3C was recorded at the Sydney weather station on Observatory Hill just after 7am, making it the coldest May morning in five years. (7.3C was also recorded there in 2011.)
Penrith residents awoke to 2C, an unprecedented low for May in 22 years of data, while Horsley Park set a new 20-year record with 1C at 6.55am.
The Bureau of Meteorology's duty forecaster, Rob Taggart, said a cold front had passed over New South Wales, bringing with its drier air mass.
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