Nation freezes in cold snap!

Setting foot outside this week has felt like walking into a freezer across most of the country. Records tumbled as as cities and towns across NSW including Bourke got down to as low as -4 degrees. Meanwhile Sydneysiders experienced their coldest June morning in 61 years! But with widespread cloud cover across the country today, it's now maximum temperatures that are sending shivers from Alice Springs to Sydney. Yesterday, Alice Springs only reached 9 degrees which is 10 degrees below the July maximum average and their coldest day for any month in 2 years! Today, day-time temperatures across cloud-covered QLD and NSW will be as much as 7 degrees below average with Charlesville heading for a chilly 13 degrees and Bourke going for a maximum of only 12 degrees. Melbourne is also icy cold as it heads for its 5th day in a row below 13 degrees- its longest cold spell in 14 years. Temperatures will remain bitterly cold into the weekend so rug up or head to Cairns or Darwin where its a much balmier 28-32 degrees!