THE Bathurst region has shivered through one of the coldest days of the year as snow has started falling on high country to the south of the city this afternoon.
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The Western Advocate has received reports in the last 15 minutes that snow is now starting to settle in Oberon after earlier light flurries came to nothing.
Lithgow has also seen snow today but, again, only very light falls.
And while there has been no hint of snow in the centre of Bathurst or the suburbs, residents have been bracing against the cold all day.
According to the Bureau of Meteorology, the temperature peaked at just 8.2 degrees Celsius at 9.30am and has hovered around the six degrees mark for the remainder of the day.
But a freezing west-southwesterly breeze for most of the day has meant the apparent temperature has been even colder.
At 4pm the actual temperature was 5.9 degrees Celsius while, with wind chill taken into account, the bureau had the apparent temperature at an arctic -2.8.
A sheep grazier’s warning remains in place across the Central Tablelands with more cold weather on the way over the weekend.
