Some parts of the NSW Southern Tablelands shivered through the coldest February morning since 1996 on Tuesday, February 21, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. The Braidwood Racecourse recorded a minimum of 2.3 degrees.
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The Goulburn Airport recorded a minimum temperatures of 0.7 degrees at 6.20am, and in town (TAFE) it reached 3.3 degrees.
Temperatures have not dropped this low since the first day of November last year.
In Taralga, the mercury dropped to 1.2 degrees Celsius and in Braidwood it got down to a mere 2.3 degrees.
Night times lows were slightly higher in Yass, where it reached 2.6 degrees while in Moss Vale the mercury dipped to 5.7 degrees.
The last time Goulburn, Taralga and Braidwood experienced such cold February mornings was in 1996.
The cold snap was short lived though, as daytime temperatures climbed back into the 30s in the latter part of the week.
