Cold enough for you? BOM says you better get used to it
The Sunshine State is barely living up to its name, with this week’s cold snap producing weather not seen in some places in more than a decade and even rare phenomena like a “fogbow” near Toowoomba.
The Bureau of Meterology caught the fogbow on its Toowoomba camera on Friday morning, calling it the “less colourful” cousin of the far more common rainbow.
Fogbows form in the same way as rainbows, but the much smaller water droplets in fog create less opportunity for refraction and reflection, often meaning the the fogbow appears to be white.
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The coolest part of the state on Friday was Wellcamp airport, where the mercury dropped to -2.4 degrees Celsius, with the bureau saying it felt more like -5.6 degrees.
But the freezing fog in Toowoomba and the Darling Downs was not the only rare weather event hitting Queensland, with the cold snap moving into the tropics and producing minimums of just 3.7 degrees in Mackay and 5.4 degrees at Bowen.
The Sunshine Coast hit 2 degrees Celsius, the coldest morning it has had since 2009.
Temperatures are expected to remain chilly over the weekend, with slighter warmer weather forecast for Monday.
