{"id":618913,"date":"2026-05-02T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618913\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:40:07","slug":"record-breaking-may-warmth-soon-to-blow-away-as-cold-front-moves-towards-eastern-australia-australia-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618913\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking May warmth soon to blow away as cold front moves towards eastern Australia | Australia weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

Record-breaking warm temperatures for the start of May in many parts of the country will be washed out by a cold front bringing rain, thunderstorms and much cooler weather.<\/p>\n

A high-pressure system dragged warm northerly winds across south-east Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said.<\/p>\n

Daytime temperatures on Friday were 10 to 14C above average in parts of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia<\/a> and Tasmania, while dozen of stations recorded their warmest May day on record.<\/p>\n

In Victoria, Geelong, Shepparton and Bendigo were among the places that had the warmest days on record with temperatures in the high 20s, while in Tasmania<\/a>, records were toppled in places including Hobart and Launceston, which recorded 26.9C and 24.3C respectively.<\/p>\n

Night-time temperatures across parts of South Australia, Queensland, Victoria<\/a>, Tasmania and NSW were eight to 12C above average on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Australia has also had its driest April since 2018.<\/p>\n

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A cold front over the Southern Ocean, which circles Antarctica, merged with a cloud band moving over Western Australia to form the cold front which swept across South Australia on Saturday, heading towards Victoria and Tasmania.<\/p>\n

BoM meteorologist Christie Johnson said on Friday that there had been \u201cunseasonably warm conditions over the last couple of weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, as we move into Sunday, we do see that cooler air extending across SA and into western Victoria, with maximum temperatures dropping just back into the high teens,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd finally on Monday, the cold air will make its way right across the south-east, with much cooler temperatures.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this will feel particularly cool \u2026 given the warm temperatures we\u2019ve had recently.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thunderstorms, rain, windy conditions and \u201cabnormally high tides\u201d were expected over south-eastern Australia over the weekend and into the start of next week.<\/p>\n

There is a risk of severe storms, heavy rainfall and potentially flash flooding, she said.<\/p>\n

Sydney will be spared the wintry blast, though, with temperatures forecast to remain in the mid-20s most of the week.<\/p>\n

Sydney\u2019s maximum temperature is expected to reach 26C on Sunday, with rain and 25C predicted for Monday. Rain is forecast for Melbourne all week, with a maximum of 23C on Sunday dropping to 13C by Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record-breaking warm temperatures for the start of May in many parts of the country will be washed out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-618913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}