Gloves and scarves had already come out Monday as temperatures ranged from 1.6 degrees celcius at 12.30am to 11.7 at 11.30am, wavering between 11.6 and 9.7 in the afternoon until 7.30pm.

Residents woke yesterday to wind gusts averaging 28 to 35 kilometres per hour which increased to 48 km/h, recorded yesterday morning at the weather station at Young airport. 

Yesterday reports of icy rain falling in the town came as the Bureau of Meteorology was issuing severe weather warnings for blizzard conditions for people in the South West Slopes, Snowy Mountains and Australian Capital Territory forecast districts.

This can be blamed on the intense low pressure system west of Tasmania which is moving east/northeast through Bass Strait further intensifying the winds over eastern NSW which were predicted to be gale force. 

Winds in the district intensified throughout the morning and peaked mid-afternoon, with main gusts reaching 65 km/h during the day then decreasing to 25 to 40 km/h in the evening. 

Expected daytime maximum temperature was 10 degrees, but by 2pm it had only reached 8.2 degrees.

The lows this week still didn’t reach the month’s lowest minimum temperature of -0.9 degree recorded on June 9.

But that’s nothing on the lowest ever recorded temperature of -6.1 degrees, recorded on June 19, 1998.

Today is expected to offer much of the same, albiet slightly warmer, with scattered showers, falling as snow in the south above 1100 metres, becoming less widespread in the afternoon. 

Winds will be gusty reaching 30 to 45 km/h turning northwesterly 20 to 30 km/h in the late evening.

Daytime temperatures are expected to sit between six and 13 degrees.

The weather is expected to take the premature bloom off the rapidly developing local crops and according to local agronomist Paul Parker growth will now slow due to the cold weather.

Frost, he warned was now a danger to plants with developed pods with frost occuring as late as September or October .

If all goes well Mr Parker expects excellent yields.