Crawford St trees displaying the first flushes of Autumn colour.
COOL to hot to cool again, Queanbeyan's start to autumn has been confusing to say the least. But the Bureau of Meteorology says there's no need to break out the scarves and beanies just yet.
In fact, the average maximum temperature for March currently stands at 25 degrees- three degrees hotter than the March average, Bureau enquiries officer David Barlow said.
"The past couple of days has been colder, but there will be warmer weather towards the end of the week, a cooler change on Friday evening and cooler again on the weekend," he said.
"It will be warming up again early next week though. Monday will be 28 with a medium chance of a shower."
But despite the warm maximum temps, Queanbeyan has also experienced colder than average minimum temperatures. Last year the coldest March day dropped down to 7.6 degrees, however the mercury dropped even lower than that this week, with 4.3 degrees recorded on Monday.
"The average March temperature is 10.5- at the moment Queanbeyan is sitting just below that on 10 degrees," Mr Barlow said.
And the erractic weather has made for a busy change of season for Queanbeyan Council gardeners following their bumper crop of CBD flowers over summertime. Council gardener Alan Neal said the soft summer flowers had now been stripped out and would be replaced with hardier pansies and snap dragons for the cooler months.
The team has also dead-headed Queanbeyan rose gardens in late February to prepare a fresh, Anzac day show of roses.
"For us, it gets quite busy [in Autumn] because we've pulled out the annual beds, and then we'll rest them for a couple of weeks and get the new annuals in there," Mr Neal said.
"Probably the only thing you get a break on at this time of year is the grass doesn't grow quite as quick, which gives you time to get into mulching and pruning."