Why temperatures feel colder than they actually are as icy blast sweeps Australia's east
ABCLarge parts of Australia's east have woken to their coldest morning of the year in the past two days, as icy weather continues to blast the country ahead of the winter solstice. According to observations from the Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Hobart experienced a "feels-like" temperature between 3-6 degrees Celsius cooler than the actual minimum temperature on Tuesday, and similar again on Wednesday. BOM forecaster Belinda House said this included Toowoomba's Wellcamp Airport site, Oakey and Roma in Queensland, where the actual temperature was minus 3C to minus 4C on Tuesday morning, but the "feels-like" temperature was minus 7C. In New South Wales' Tablelands, Glen Innes had an actual temperature of minus 4C but a "feels-like" temperature of minus 8C. Mount Hotham in Victoria, on the other hand, had a comparatively milder actual minimum of minus 6C on Tuesday, but a harsher "feels-like" temperature of minus 13C.
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