Just two days after Hobart recorded the hottest day in Tasmania so far this year, a new coldest temperature has been set.
Hobart soared to 35.6 degrees on Monday, breaking the previous top temperature of 33.5 degrees, set in Fingal on January 4.
On Wednesday, Liawenee in the Central Highlands recorded -1.9 degrees.
The reading was 1.8 degrees colder than the previous coldest temperature of -0.1 degrees measured at the summit of kunanyi/Mount Wellington on January 7.
The record low for January in Liawenee, a small town near Great Lake, remains -4.0 degrees, set in 2021.
Last winter, Liawenee recorded the coldest temperature for any permanently inhabited location in Australia, plunging to -13.5 degrees.
That reading was also the second-coldest temperature ever recorded in Tasmania, just behind the -14.2 degrees also recorded in Liawenee in August 2020.
