Have your woollen blankets at the ready, the temperature is set to fall into the single digits in Brisbane over the coming mornings.
But the glorious, blue skies will continue as consolation, with no rain on the horizon for the next week in Brisbane.
“We’re not going to get any rain for the foreseeable future, and the foreseeable future is typically about seven days,” Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Livio Regano said.
Brisbane winter: Barely a cloud in the sky.
The temperature is forecast to drop to 8 degrees on Tuesday morning and 9 degrees on Wednesday - slightly below the long-term average June minimum of 11 degrees.
The thermostat will climb into the double digits again on Thursday and Friday, before falling again to 9 degrees on Saturday morning, making for a chilly start to the weekend.
“It’s colder than average, but not by much,” Regano said.
Brisbane’s coldest June temperature on the books (from the city’s former central Wickham Terrace gauge) is 2.4 degrees, which was recorded on June 29, 1908.
However, at Brisbane Airport the coldest June morning was recorded on June 27, 1971, when the temperature plunged to 0.6 degrees.
A deep low over the Tasman Sea, drawing cold air up from the south, is responsible for the crisp winter days, Regano explained.
“This is typical for Queensland in winter. We have our dry season now,” he said.
Regano explained south-westerly winds carry dry, cold air from Australia’s arid centre to south-east Queensland during winter, creating chilly, yet sunny conditions.
“You barely get a cloud, let alone any rainfall,” he said.
“People talk about the winter westerlies, but in truth they’re more south-westerlies.”