Australia Shivers; Spring Snow Continues To Build On Europe's Mountains As Winter's Cold Lingers; + Mongolia's Snowiest Winter Since 1975

Europe's late-season snow is now threatening long-standing records.

Australia Shivers

Australia's "warmest winter on record" is being preluded by a polar outbreak across the nation's south-east.

As per the Bureau of Meteorology, temperatures will hold above average across Australia this May to July, which could result in the warmest winter ever recorded (by the Bureau’s own inaccurate and heat-skewed network of weather stations).

This week's Antarctic cold hit Tasmania the hardest, where temperatures dipped below the freezing mark in several regions.

Mt Wellington, above Hobart, hit -1.8C (28.8F). While up north, the coastal city of Devonport shivered through its coldest temperature this early into the year for more than two decades, since 2003, with a low of 3.8C (38.8F).

It looks a mixed bag for the Aussie continent as May progresses. Though the cold anomalies could win-out by the third week (to be taken with a pinch of salt this far out):

GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) May 19 - May 21 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Spring snow Continues To Build On Europe's Mountains

The late-season snow is persisting across Europe's higher elevations, even into May.