May 21, 2018
The South Burnett shivered through its coldest morning so far this year on Monday, with the mercury dropping to -1.4 degrees in Kingaroy.
By 9:00am, it had risen to a much warmer 15.7 degrees.
Earlier this month, the temperature dipped to just 0.3 degrees on Saturday, May 12.
With a light frost predicted, farmers at the weekend were rushing to complete thrashing of peanut crops in southern parts of the region.
The Bureau of Meteorology has predicted morning temperatures for the rest of the week to stay above zero, with a positively warm 6 degrees tipped for Friday.
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While it was cold in Kingaroy on Monday morning, there were worse places to be.
Applethorpe in the Granite Belt took honours for being the coldest placed in the state when the temperature plummeted to -2.8 degrees at 7:03am.
Oakey on the Darling Downs recorded -2.0 degrees, and Warwick saw the mercury dip to -1.9 degrees, pushing Kingaroy into fourth place.
Three other sub-zero spots in Queensland were Toowoomba’s Wellcamp Airport (-1.0 degrees), Dalby (-0.3 degrees) and Roma (-0.2 degrees).
