WHAT HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING?
Big chill in southeast (Qld)set to continueThe mercury plunged to minus 5C at Warwick while Coolangatta recorded its lowest minimum temperature in more than four decades – 1C. Even the normally balmy Hervey Bay could manage only the same overnight low as chilly Toowoomba – zero degrees – while centres including Stanthorpe, Dalby, Oakey, Maryborough and Gympie were all below freezing. At Brisbane Airport, early morning travellers and workers shivered through 2.6C temperatures. The city, where the temperature Weather bureau senior forecaster Vikash Prasad said snow probably would have fallen on the Darling Downs had the air not been so dry. "The minimum temperatures in some areas were certainly close to record lows," he said. "Coolangatta's 1C minimum was the coldest since 1964 when the airport recorded 0.4C. reached a minimum of 4.1C just after 6.30am, wasn't much warmer.
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