The Gundowring resident is awake by 5am and outside ready to milk the cows by 5.30 each day.

“It’s pretty fresh at that time of the morning, but it is noticeably colder about 7am when a little bit of light starts coming through,” he said.

“It is dark when I get up, but you get into a routine and just do it.”

Mr Coulston reckons he doesn’t really have a choice when it comes to getting up each morning before sunlight and there’s no chance of a sleep-in.

“You have to do the right thing by the cows because they have a bag full of milk they need to release,” he said.

Mr Coulston said it was days when there was frost and cloud cover about that were the real worry.

“You don’t want to see black frost,” he said.

The Border had its coldest morning for winter so far yesterday morning when the temperature dropped to minus 2.1 degrees at 7.15am.

However, it was Rutherglen that recorded the chilliest morning in the region yesterday with minus 4.6 degrees recorded at 7am while Wangaratta dropped to minus 2.5 degrees at 6am.

Bureau of Meteorology figures show Albury has recorded eight mornings where the temperature has dropped below zero so far this winter.

Last year’s coldest winter day was on August 5 when Albury recorded minus 2.8 degrees.

Frost is forecast across the region again this morning and tomorrow.

A shower or two is forecast on Monday and Tuesday when the minimum temperatures are expected to be three and five degrees respectively.