Melbourne weather: City records coldest start to winter since 1982

If you have been scraping ice from the windscreen of your car each morning, you're not alone.

The cold has given way to some beautiful sunny days since winter began.

Melbourne is shivering through its coldest start to winter in 36 years, with an average minimum temperature of less than 5 degrees in the past six days.

The Bureau of Meteorology says Melburnians have woken to a string of chilly mornings in a pattern of weather that has been not recorded since the first week of winter in 1982.

Read Melissa Cunningham’s story from The Age - “Melbourne weather: City records coldest start to winter since 1982.”