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Sydneysiders have shivered through the coldest morning in four years, with temperatures plummeting to 2.5 degrees in the city’s west.
The cool temperatures are a result of a high-pressure system moving over the city before a cooler trough sweeps through the city on Sunday.
Visitors arrive at Katoomba’s Echo Point Lookout on Saturday morning. Credit: Dion Georgopoulos
The trough will bring gusty and dangerous winds over elevated areas - including the Blue Mountains and Penrith in the morning.
Sydney Observatory Hill recorded 8.7 degrees, 3.3 degrees cooler than the May average.
The lowest temperature recorded at the site was 4.4 degrees in 1962, Weatherzone meteorologist Corine Brown said.
“It was the coldest May minimum temperature in four years for a lot of Sydney – we got 3.5 degrees in Bankstown, which is the coldest temperature in four years. It was 3 degrees in Penrith and 2.5 degrees in Campbelltown – the coldest in three years,” she said.
Layla 4, and Louis, 2, at Echo Point Lookout at the Blue Mountains. Credit: Dion Georgopoulos
Morning temperatures in Sydney will remain below 10 degrees this week, with daytime temperatures under 20 degrees.
Elsewhere in the city, the lowest temperature will be 3 degrees in Penrith on Monday.