Coldest night of the year for parts of Australia TONIGHT as temperatures plunge to -2C - so how cold will it be where you are?
- Temperatures in Melbourne will be the coldest so far this year on Thursday at 5C
- Victoria, NSW, ACT and South Australia will receive frost warnings this weekend
- But Perth residents will experience higher than average temperatures of 23C
Parts of Australia are set to shiver through some of their frostiest nights of the year over the next few days as a cold front moves across the south-east.
Much of the east coast will receive frost warnings over the weekend - but residents in Western Australia can look forward to blazing sunshine.
The cold front will hit Tasmania the hardest, and should move off into the coast once it gets to Melbourne, Meteorologist Rohan Smith from the Bureau of Meteorology said.
Victoria has been issued a frost warning with temperatures expected to plummet to zero degrees in some parts of the state.
Thursday night will see Melbourne's temperature plummet to 5C, making it the state's coldest evening so far this year.
Cold and windy conditions are expected in Victoria and around the east coast of NSW (pictured, a jogger goes on a frosty run in Melbourne on May 2)
A cold front will move up from Tasmania into the east coast (pictured) bringing colder conditions before it drifts off into the ocean
Friday will bring a minimum temperature of 5C with a maximum of 15C and mostly sunny conditions.
Minimum temperatures are expected to stay below 10C in Melbourne until Wednesday, but no serious rain is expected.
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New South Wales will be drenched in up to 20mm of rain before the end of Thursday but it will ease off by Friday morning.
Some areas of Sydney's inner-west have escaped the miserable weather, but light showers and cloudy conditions are expected to loom over city on the weekend.
New South Wales will face up to 20 millimetres of rain before the end of Thursday but it will ease off by Friday morning (pictured, a man riding in Sydney's CBD on March 9)
A woman wraps up warm in Melbourne on May 1 (pictured) as the city suffers a cold spell which will continue into next week
'They have some heavy frost forecast down on the very far south-eastern parts but further north things are generally better,' Mr Smith added.
Temperatures in the ACT are expected to regularly dip to or below zero over the next few days with places around Hobart on Saturday predicted to hit -2C.
Conditions are expected to be mostly sunny for the next week but minimum temperatures will not exceed 4C for the next six days.
Tasmania is expected to be impacted by the cold front and will see temperatures dip below 10C over the weekend and the start of next week.
'There will be a little bit of light shower activity around and some stronger winds down in the western and southern coasts,' Mr Smith said.
Cold and windy conditions are seen at Mordialloc Harbour in Melbourne on May 2 (pictured)
A frost warning has also been issued for South Australia over the next few days for the south-eastern part of the states.
Adelaide will see temperatures no higher than 8C over the weekend but sunny conditions are expected.
Mr Smith said Western Australia will be the place to be over the weekend with temperatures expected to hit 22 and 23C in areas around Perth.
'There are sightly warmer than average temperate in WA, especially through the south-west of WA will make it the place to be,' Mr Smith said.
Victoria (pictured, a Melbourne park last winter) has been issued a frost warning with temperatures expected to plummet to zero degrees in some parts of the state
A ridge in Victoria will push the cold front away from Queensland allowing the state to be relatively unaffected.
Mr Smith said residents should expect some coastal showers with Brisbane recording sunny conditions and minimum temperatures above 13C.
In the Northern Territory temperatures will stay consist with Darwin expecting lows of 25C on Saturday and sunny conditions.
'They have had a push of dry cooler air over the last few weeks so they are well and truly into the dry season,' Mr Smith said.
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