Melbourne is on track to having its coldest November in 48 years and its first November since 2001 that fails to reach 30ºC.

A series of unseasonable cold fronts over southeastern Australia, combined with a lack of widespread late-spring heat over the Australian continent, have caused an unusually cool run of weather in Melbourne this month.

In a city that is well known for its cold weather during winter, even the locals have been feeling the effects of a seemingly endless run of chilly months.

Anyone else in Melbourne getting knocked sideways with SAD this year due to the prolonged months of darkness, cold, rain? It’s normally bad, but then we’re normally out of it before late November?!

— Dax (@daxmelbourne) November 21, 2022

Honestly can't remember Melbourne being this cold and wet this late in the year?

— Rudi Edsall (@RudiEdsall) November 15, 2022

As it stands, Melbourne is on track to register its coldest November in nearly half a century:

As of 9am on Friday, November 25, Melbourne’s running average maximum temperature at its Olympic Park weather station was 20.2ºC.

Based on current forecasts, the city is expected to end the month with a November average maximum temperature of around 20.3 to 20.4ºC.

This would make it Melbourne’s coldest November since 1974 based on maximum temperatures.

This month is also likely to become the first November since 2001 that fails to hit 30ºC in Melbourne. The highest temperature so far this month was 29.3ºC on Wednesday, November 9.

Another cold morning in SE Australia.
The minimum in Melbourne Centre was 7.2C, the lowest so late in the season since 1977.
Even colder in the Airport with 4.4C. pic.twitter.com/0hyYAM7Tg4

— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) November 18, 2022

Looking ahead, a brief burst of warmer weather will return to Melbourne on Saturday and there are early indications of a few more hot days late next week. However, long-range forecast models predict cooler-than-average temperatures over most of Victoria during December.