Had to take a drive out to central QLD yesterday to see my Grandfather before he passes away at 94 y.o (MAJOR stroke - total paralysis left side, one eye blind, cannot swallow etc). It is a 4.5 hr trip each way, so I left at 0330 to make the most of the day (had to drive back same day).
My car has an OAT probe. Lowest I recall it ever being around home was 12°, with 10° once going to Brisbane. As I drove through Peachester on Sunday morning, the car computer made a sound I had never heard before, which for a moment startled me.
It was the OAT computer telling me the OAT was below 5° - it displayed an ice symbol - nice and handy for German roads I guess
I was thinking it wasn't going to drop much further, but I was wrong.
Kilcoy on Sunday morning was -1°. Nippy. Poor Nettie
Crossing the Brisbane river it was still -1°.
Moore (the turnoff for Duckadang) was -2°.
Yarraman was -4°, with sleet falling and frost visible.
Nanango was -3°.
Half way to between Nanango and Kingaory is a small valley... -6° for 2 or so minutes, with my windscreen frosting over instantaneously. Then back to -3° for most of the remainder.
Kingaroy was -1, but had been colder as there was still sleet falling and a touch of SNOW in the colder parts still visible. CRUNCHY!
Onwards we continued, now with the sun up. Arrived finally at Monto, with the OAT at 8°, but with sleet still falling occasionally. IT had snowed JUST a little over night.
So, my daughter FINALLY got to see SOME snow, however small
I also got to see M42 and friends naked eye as I heeded the call of nature in the wee (pun intended) hours.
Apparently, the night before, the Bunya Mountains near Yarraman had gotten a snowfall too.
Now it is raining again
