This was Sydney yesterday, it won’t be 25C today or anytime soon again.

It seems the weather in Australia doesn’t quite know what season it is with warmer than average temperatures changing to cold quicker than you can say winter.

A series of cold fronts are rapidly moving over southern Australia bringing cooler temperatures, showers and snow for the next few days.

But of course that’s just for some.

Those living further north will be enjoying quite different conditions with Queenslanders continuing to bask in well above July averages across the state.

Senior forecaster at the BoM national operations centre Jenny Sturrock said the first cold front made its way over southeast Australia yesterday with severe weather warnings put in place for Victoria, Tasmania and NSW.

The colder weather came as a shock particularly to those in NSW and Victoria who had been enjoying above average temperatures.

Victoria was battered by damaging winds with the bureau warning of 90km/h winds in Melbourne.

The BoM also warned of damaging winds and heavy rainfall through north central and north eastern Victoria and across the border into southern NSW.

“The coldest air moved over the southeast overnight with snow showers lowering to 800m over Alpine NSW and Victoria over the weekend and as low as 200m through Tasmania,” Ms Sturrock said.

She added heavy rain was washing away current snow coverage so the next snow dump will be welcomed by skiers hitting the slopes this weekend.

The worst of the cold fronts would ease from mid next week when a ridge of high pressure builds and becomes established over the continent.

Rain one day, sunny the next, freezing thereafter. Welcome to Sydney. Picture: John GraingerSource:News Corp Australia

Ms Sturrock said Queensland on the other hand was enjoying well above average temperatures thanks to a static, stable weather pattern which has allowed a warm, moist air mass to persist over the state.

“The minimum temperatures are well above the July average today, particularly over eastern and southern Queensland,” she said.

“Some July minimum temperature records will likely be broken.”

She added the minimum temperature is forecast to be near the warmest July minimum on record which was previously 18.9 degrees on July 2, 1920.

“It will also be near the warmest winter minimum temperature on record which was 19.2 degrees on August 29, 2008.”

Hot or cold, snow or rain, here’s what else the weather has in store for you this weekend.

VICTORIA

Victoria began to feel the effects of the front yesterday and will continue to shiver today.

The mercury hit 19C yesterday before dropping to 13C today and will be a cool 12C tomorrow.

Overnight lows of 6C are expected while freezing conditions will also hit the Alpine areas bringing more snow.

The cold will come as a shock to what the BoM said were unusually warm temperatures and follows the hottest July temperature on record when the mercury hit 23.5C.

The Victorian Alps will be hit with more snow this weekend.Source:AAP

NEW SOUTH WALES

Sydney enjoyed an unusually warm high of 24.9C on Tuesday, the warmest July day in two years. And yesterday Sydney residents basked in a glorious 26C.

NSW also recorded its warmest July night on record with these temperatures recorded across the state: Brewarrina, 15.6C PeakHill, 14.5C Nyngan, 14C Taralga 11C and Goulburn, 11.3C.

But a cooler 18C is expected today and that will drop even further as the front continues with a low of just 7C expected on Sunday morning reaching a high of 17C.

The BoM said snow is also expected to fall across the Alpine regions.

ACT

The nation’s capital is no stranger to a shiver or two with a maximum of 16C reached in Canberra yesterday.

Today the mercury will drop to just 11C and 9C on Sunday with overnight temperatures dropping to a freezing -1C.

TASMANIA

Our southern cousins will not be spared from the cold front which bit hard yesterday.

Temperatures will struggle to hit double digits while the mercury will plummet to 3C in Hobart this morning before reaching a maximum of just 10C.

Sunday will feel a fraction warmer with a high of 11C.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Adelaide was smashed by a cold front just a week ago, and it won’t be spared the cooler weather this time either.

Adelaide reached a high of just 15C yesterday with highs of 13C expected across the weekend. There will also be a low of just 7C in the city.

PERTH

Western Australia may feel a fraction warmer with temperatures hitting 15C yesterday.

Temperatures in the city will struggle to hit 15C across both weekend days with a low of 4-6C expected.

NORTHERN TERRITORY

Tropical Darwin will feel like a sunny paradise compared to its other capital cousins further south.

The mercury hit 32C yesterday and will hit that again across the weekend.

But the city will enjoy mildly cooler overnight lows of 21C.

Brisbane couple Tabitha Stover-Johnston and Nathan Daly-Coates lap up the recent autumn sunshine hitting Queensland. Picture: Tim MarsdenSource:News Corp Australia

QUEENSLAND

While most of the rest of the country freezes, Brisbane residents will enjoy spring-like weather across the weekend.

Queensland’s southeast is in for summer-like highs of up to 29C this weekend, with the bureau tipping longstanding temperature records could fall.

Saturday is also tipped to reach 27C, temperatures well above the July average of 21.9C.