BENDIGO has shivered through one of its coldest mornings of the year on Tuesday.
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The mercury plummeted to minus 2.9 degrees at 3.29am and was even colder in some towns across central Victoria.
It was Bendigo’s coldest overnight low since July 3, when the temperature dropped to minus 3.8 degrees.
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For the second day in the row the temperature fell below zero, bringing with it severe frosts.
The Bureau of Meteorology had issued a severe frost warning in most Victorian regions, including Northern Country, Central, North Central, North East, Wimmera, Mallee and East Gippsland.
It warned the frosts had the potential to cause significant crop damage across the region.
Bendigo reached its Tuesday high of 8.7 degrees at 1.29pm, the city's lowest daily maximum temperature since it recorded 7.1 degrees on July 14.
It comes after the city battled through its coldest July in 11 years, with an average temperature of 11.6 degrees, about .9 of a degree below the historic average.
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The weather bureau's duty forecaster Shaun Coombs said Bendigo could look forward to a couple of warmer days with the possibility of more frosts arriving on Friday following an overnight low of zero.
"There could be more frosts later in the week, but it's debatable whether it will be as cold as (Tuesday) morning," he said.
"It was extremely cold (Tuesday) morning and with clouds most of the day the temperature hasn't been able to recover.
"Another cold front is on its way through, and that might bring more showers."
Bendigo is aiming for a high of 10 degrees today, ahead of three consecutive days of 12 degrees before a top of 13 degrees on Sunday.
Elsewhere across the region, Kyneton is expecting just eight degrees, Castlemaine nine, Maryborough 10 and Echuca 12.
Mr Coombs said there was unlikely to be any repeat of the snow falls which hit Mount Macedon on Monday.
"The last of those snow showers tended to peter out late Monday evening," he said.
"As the winds turned more westerly and north westerly, that put paid to the snow.
"But a lot of people who haven't seen snow in a long while have seen it in the last few days."