A warming climate produced a cold day in Melbourne

A sense of winter descended
upon Melbourne today.

Melbourne, where did summer go?

With grey skies over the city, the mercury dipped to 13 degrees on Tuesday morning.

But the apparent temperature, which takes the wind chill into account, was just 11.1.

It was even colder at Laverton, south-west of the city, where the apparent temperature was 9.

The average temperature this time of year is more like 26.

Read the Melbourne Age story - “Melbourne weather: Temperature dips as chilly southerly winds hit city.”

(The heading: “Melbourne weather”, says it all as this story is about the weather rather than the climate and so while it is decidedly cold, it is also confusing as most people don’t delineate between weather and climate – Robert McLean).