Snow flurries expected to fall in parts of Queensland this week as state shivers through cold snap
Queenslanders are rugging up as the state shivers through another cold snap. (ABC News: Paul Adams)
Queenslanders are shivering through a cold snap, with the weather bureau predicting more low temperatures and a chance of snow later this week.
Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) senior forecaster Shane Kennedy said the cold snap would continue settling across most of Queensland in the coming days, having travelled inland and as far north as Richmond.
Locals in the Darling Downs and Granite Belt felt it the most overnight, with a "handful of locations getting below zero degrees this morning".
Parts of the state dropped to below zero temperatures this morning. (Supplied: Patrick Gorman)
But those border regions could get even colder as more moisture pushes in this afternoon, with the potential for snow along the belt from Tuesday to Thursday.
"It certainly got cold enough this morning, but it's just too dry to see any snow," Mr Kennedy said.
"Most likely, it'll just be some snow flurries … unlikely to have much settling on the ground, but there is that potential."
Frost at Amiens near Stanthorpe this morning. (ABC News: Supplied: Aiden Beutel)
Below zero overnight
The state's coldest temperature overnight was recorded at Wellcamp Airport, near Toowoomba, where the mercury dropped to -3.4 degrees Celsius, closely followed by Oakey at -2.6C and Applethorpe, near Stanthorpe, at -2.3C.
Mr Kennedy said other inland areas shivered through below-average temperatures overnight, ranging from two to eight degrees colder than usual, including Hughenden at 1.8C and Beaudesert in the Scenic Rim dipping just below zero.
Parts of the east coast, around Mackay and further south, saw temperatures around two to six degrees below-average.
Closer to the city, Amberley Airport in Brisbane's west got down to -0.5 degrees.
Cold snap to continue
Mr Kennedy said most places "were about as cold as they were three weeks ago", during Queensland's last cold snap in mid-to-late-June.
"But one exception is the Gold Coast Seaway [where it] got down to 7.4 degrees this morning," he said.
"That [was] it's coldest morning of the year so far."
The weather bureau predicted the "fairly prolonged" cold snap would last into the weekend — and Queenslanders will feel it beyond those cool mornings, though frost is expected too.
The cold weather is expected to continue through the week. (ABC News: Paul Adams)
"Temperatures, both overnight and during the afternoon, are likely to be in that two to six degrees below-average range," Mr Kennedy said.
"But we expect to see more a few more getting into that seven to eight degrees [range] below the average.
"We're likely to see frost inland, through southern and central Queensland, even pushing inland to northern Queensland."
There's a chance the cold air will push all the way through to the far north, including a chance of frost for the Atherton Tablelands on early Thursday and Friday, which the BOM said "only happens a few times a year".
South-east Queensland is expected to endure some "quite windy conditions", with the icy breeze peaking on Tuesday and Wednesday.
"Those overnight temperatures will likely be feeling very close to zero degrees," Mr Kennedy said.