There is a reason the summer clothes have not made it out of the wardrobe yet: Albury is shivering its way through the coldest October in 13 years.
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The average temperature over the first 23 days of the month was just 18.7 degrees, well below last year’s average of 27 degrees.
October 2015 never dropped below 21.1 in Albury, but this year the city has experienced 16 days colder than that so far.
The nights have also been cold, as low as 3.3 degrees early Sunday morning.
The temperature has been so cold, it has even snowed at Falls Creeks during October – four times.
About seven centimetres of snow fell on the mountain as recently as Saturday night, adding to a total of more than 3.5 metres of accumulative snow at Falls Creek between June and October.
RFS Southern Border operational services coordinator Margaret Wehner said long-term weather forecasts indicated a drier November, then a milder than normal January with more rain.