{"id":612548,"date":"2026-04-17T08:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612548\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:37:11","slug":"australias-south-east-in-for-its-first-really-chilly-mornings-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612548\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s south-east in for its first really chilly mornings of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/australia\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Australia\">Australia<\/a>&#8216;s south-east is bracing for a chilly weekend as a cold front brings near or below freezing temperatures.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weatherzone.com.au\/news\/frosty-weekend-for-the-southeast-with-widespread-freezing-temperatures\/1891310\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Weatherzone\">Weatherzone<\/a> reports this weekend will see the coldest nights to date this year with Thredbo in NSW expected to drop to -5 degrees.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/victoria\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Victoria\">Victoria<\/a>&#8216;s alpine resorts could see temperatures plummet to -3 degrees while even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a> could drop to 5 degrees tomorrow morning.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/84997bbb-7f0d-48b1-860f-97fe8edd76df.png\"   alt=\"\"\/>The nation&#8217;s south-east is in for its coldest weekend of the year so far. (Weatherzone)Liawanee on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/tasmania\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Tasmania\">Tasmania<\/a>\ufeff&#8217;s Central Plateau will reach -4 degrees on Sunday morning, Weatherzone reports.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologist Angus Hines from the Bureau of Meteorology said in some areas, this will be the first really cold mornings of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The combination of high pressure across the south and the south-east, as well as clear skies and not much wind, is going to lead to some very chilly temperatures through the next couple of mornings.\ufeff&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/canberra\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Canberra\">Canberra<\/a> is also set to dip below freezing early Sunday morning, possibly reaching -1 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The cold will spread into the Northern Tablelands hitting Guyra and Glen Innes by Monday.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Hines said as well as the cool change, the south-east could expect clear days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A bright, sunny day, but those temperatures are quite a lot lower than where they have been sitting through most of the week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia&#8216;s south-east is bracing for a chilly weekend as a cold front brings near or below freezing temperatures.Weatherzone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-612548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}