Winter?

We're in our second official week of winter here in Australia. Today, Melbourne (the coldest city in mainland Australia) was sunny with a high of 20C [68F].

2005 has been an anamolously warm year thus far. Average temperatures for the January-April period broke 150 national, state, and city temperature records. In Victoria, it was the driest Autumn since records began in 1900, beating the previous record set in 1991. Daytime temperatures were 2 to 3°C above average beating the previous record set in 2002.