Melburnians have endured yet another sticky, restless night of sleep, with the temperature steadily climbing throughout the night to peak at 25 degrees early on Tuesday morning.
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A mild cool change swept through the city on Monday night about 7pm, pulling temperatures down from 30 degrees to 23 degrees in an hour.
However, the early cool change failed to save the city from a hot night. Instead, things heated up again throughout the night - at 10pm on Monday, the temperature in the city was 21.9 degrees but rose to 25 degrees at 4am.
Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Richard Carlyon said rising temperatures throughout the night were "a little unusual".
"It was because we had two parts of the cool change," he explained. "We had the wind change part in the early evening and then the cold front didn't come through until about 5am, so the winds did go back to the north through the night and that just pushed the temperature up a little and kept the temperature in the low to mid-20s all night."
Only Melbourne can have this kind of temperature difference between two days. #melbourneweather https://t.co/wMSMomVfHj— jiten vij (@jitenvij) January 23, 2017
Mr Carlyon said Melburnians could expected a dry week ahead with daytime temperatures hovering around 25 degrees.
"It's going up towards the high 20s at the weekend, with next Monday looking warm at 36 degrees," he said.
