April 22, 2015
The old rule of thumb is frosts after Anzac Day. But Jack Frost almost paid an early visit to the South Burnett on Wednesday morning.
At 5:30am today, the temperature was just 3.1 degrees in Kingaroy.
At 5:37am it dropped even further, measuring 2.9 at Kingaroy Airport – officially the coldest temperature anywhere in the State – and more than nine degrees below the Kingaroy average for April.
By 6:30am, the mercury had crept back up to 3.3 degrees but, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, this actually felt like 0.6 degrees due to other factors.
By 9:00am it was 12.8 degrees in Kingaroy – the coldest it has been at this time so far this year – but at 3:00pm it was an almost balmy 21.1 degrees.
The South Burnett wasn’t the only part of Queensland shivering this morning.
According to BOM spokesman Jess Carey, Hughenden (6.6 degrees) and Maryborough (7.3 degrees) had their coldest April mornings for more than 100 years.
And everywhere below Cairns was between 5 and 10 degrees below average.
Tomorrow (Thursday), it will feel positively tropical in the South Burnett with a predicted overnight temperature in Kingaroy of between 6 and 11 degrees, reaching 24 degrees during the day.
Footnote: southburnett.com.au is not snubbing other towns by only mentioning Kingaroy … BOM has its weather station located at Kingaroy Airport.
- Related link: South Burnett Weather
