WINTER is well and truly here, with residents across the region crunching over frosted grass on the way to the mail box or scraping their car window clean on Tuesday morning.
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The season officially changes this weekend, but it looks like Autumn has already left the New England, as the temperature has started to plummet.
Tamworth faced a minimum of 2 degrees yesterday and the forecast for the rest of the week will be just as chilly, with minimums of 4 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday.
On Friday morning, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) predicts a decent morning frost with a low of 0 degrees.
At the weekend it will pick up to an almost balmy minimum of 7 degrees. Throughout the week, the temperature will max out in the mid-to-low teens.
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Those up the hill in Armidale have already pulled out their winter woollies.
On Wednesday, they'll be looking at a minimum of -1 degrees, followed by 0 degrees on Thursday. On Friday, it'll be a crisp low of -5 degrees.
The Tamworth region saw above average rainfall for May with 40mm, however most of that fell in just one day.
While it was a bumper month, the region is still well below its average rainfall. So far this year there has been 160.2mm, about three inches below the average rainfall to May (252.7mm).
June is expected to be another dry one, however cold front events over southern and eastern Australian could potentially bring widespread rain in the fourth week of the month.
Jamieson Murphy
Newcastle Herald news director and business reporter. Interested in any and all yarns. Whisper g'day mate to me at jamieson.murphy@austcommunitymedia.com.au
Newcastle Herald news director and business reporter. Interested in any and all yarns. Whisper g'day mate to me at jamieson.murphy@austcommunitymedia.com.au
