Second-coldest May on record.
 
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The coldest May in more than 50 years has left Canberra’s gardeners with frostbitten plants and dying blooms.
 
It’s the second-coldest May on record, with overnight temperatures falling below zero, three degrees below the average overnight temperature, say meterologists at Weatherzone.
 
Canberra hasn’t suffered through a cold spell like this since 1961.
 
Average temperatures fell to minus 0.2 degrees compared to the historical average of 3.1 degrees.
 
The only colder May on record was in 1957, when the average low was minus 2.6 degrees.
 
”This freezing weather is more typical of July, when the average minimum is minus 0.1 of a degree,” said Weatherzone meteorologist Brett Dutschke.
 
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/coldest-may-in-50-years-20120529-1zgcr.html