Melbourne shivers through coldest morning of year with temperatures of -1.5C in some suburbs

BoM forecasts more frosty mornings ahead and says a ridge of high pressure is causing the run of cold' weather

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Melbourne has shivered through its coldest morning of the year, with a strong high pressure system forecast to bring even more frosty mornings throughout the week ahead.

At Melbourne's Olympic Park, temperatures fell to 1C at 7.29am, making it the coldest morning of the year so far and the coldest morning since 2022, when a temperature of 0.8C was recorded.

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