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Seasons tussle over southeastern Australia

Just days after sweltering through a heatwave worthy of mid summer, southeastern Australia is now shivering in a wintry blast of frost and snow.

Temperatures on Tuesday morning dropped below freezing over parts of SA, VIC, TAS and NSW, as much as nine below average. Yongala dipped to a bitter minus three degrees, their coldest October night in 26 years. Lake Victoria has not recorded a colder October night in 40 years, dropping to three.

In Sydney the temperature plummeted nearly 30 degrees over the long weekend, falling from 37 at the Airport on Friday to below 10 on Monday night. The cold snap has even brought light snow to the Alps.

Changeable weather is typical in mid spring as hot air from the north jostles with cold air from the Southern Ocean. Southeastern states can expect another frosty morning on Wednesday but highs will return to the mid twenties by the weekend.

- Weatherzone

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