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Cold, foggy mornings for SE and SW Australia

Craig McIntosh, Wednesday June 15, 2016 - 13:26 AEST

Many people awoke to low visibility this morning, and it wasn't just tired eyes.

In New South Wales, many-a-town away from the coast had a substantial blanketing of fog, thickest about the ranges and slopes. Armidale, Bathurst and Albury all had visibility less than 100 metres before it lifted once the sun peeped over the horizon.

Canberra residents needed the windscreen scrapers before driving to work with freezing fog creating an icy layer as the mercury dipped south of minus five degrees around sunrise.

Victoria's Mallee, Wimmera, Northern Country, North East, West & South Gippsland and South West regions all had areas of cold, condensated air settling over them. Swan Hill, Horsham, Shepparton, Wangaratta, Latrobe Valley and Ballarat areas all had visibility dropping below 300 metres early this morning.

Many parts of Tasmania were just that little bit colder than further north with residents waking to frost rather than fog.

In South Australia, the Mount Gambier area had a foggy morning as the air temperature edged ever so closely to the wet-bulb temperature. By around 7am things began to clear to what is a pretty nice day around one of Australia's most recently extinct volcanoes.

Southern Western Australia had patchy fog from the coast to the Goldfields. Perth Airport to Jarrahwood to Kalgoorlie all had fog with relative humidity around 99-100% until it burned away around 9am.

Increasing cloud cover and overnight temperatures will reduce the chances of fog in many places tomorrow morning, however elevated areas such as Canberra and Kalgoorlie are still likely to see a little bit more before sunrise.

- Weatherzone

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