Tasmanians awoke to freezing temps on Wednesday morning, and if they were sensible, they went straight back to bed.

• Hobart had its coldest night for two years, with a minimum of just 0.2°C.
• Elsewhere in Tassie, numerous centres recorded their coldest night for 2021, including kunanyi/Mt Wellington above Hobart, which dipped down to -5.6°C.
• Liawenee was the coldest place in the state at -6.0°C overnight.
• We've written about Liawenee often here at WZ. Situated at 1057 metres on Tasmania's Central Plateau, it holds the record for Tassie's coldest night on record, a brisk -14.2°C.

Image: Nice view of Hobart from up on kunanyi/Mt Wellington, taken a little earlier this year after a light snowfall. Source: @penny_rounce on Instagram.

Meanwhile, cold overnight temps also chilled the mainland.

• Perisher Valley in NSW recorded -10°C overnight, the first double-digit negative minimum of 2021 anywhere in Australia.
• Interestingly, the minimum came relatively early in the evening at 9:46 pm. Things "warmed up" a little after that as a very slight breeze kicked in, hovering around -6°C or -7°C for most of the night.
• Canberra, which yesterday recorded its coldest maximum in 12 years, also had a chilly one, with a low of -4.7°C, its third-coldest night to date of winter 2021.

Image: Amazing you can get a frost so thick at Parliament House given all the hot air that comes out of the building. Source: @benwilson_newhomes_cbr on Instagram.

Freezing or near-freezing temperatures can be expected to continue across much of southeastern Australia for the next few nights.