Oh, the irony. In the end, it was the weather itself that felled our very own weather correspondent, Mic Looby. Temporarily, thank goodness.
An early winter demon has delivered a lurgie that has been through the Looby household. We feel Mic's absence today – and no doubt many of you will, given the great feedback we've had about his daily reports - as we bring you the latest weather.
It was a shivery 8 degrees when your faithful fill-in correspondent left home in the city's north-west about 5.45 this morning and it had not improved a lot by 6.45am.
But things look like they will brighten up, with a forecast top of 16. And mostly sunny to boot. Enjoy it while it lasts.
And spare a thought for those in Ballarat, where the day has started below zero. Shivers!
Here's what the weather is doing right now
Here's what's in store for the rest of the day
Here's how the rest of the week is shaping up
Elsewhere in the world
A worker lugs a shovel through the early morning fog over an alfalfa crop, on his way to manage the wastewater irrigation of a field in Hidalgo, central Mexico. For more than 100 years, most of what gets flushed down Mexico City's toilets has resurfaced here to the north in the rivers and reservoirs of rural Mezquital Valley. A massive new water treatment plant is about to change this. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell
Weather term of the day: 'Hot belt'
Quite the fashion item, if you're a planet. A "hot belt" is the band around the earth where the annual mean temperature exceeds 20 degrees. It takes in northern Australia and is one of five main temperature zones. There are also two cold caps, but whether they match the hot belt is hard to say. Fashion's fickle that way. Photo: Tim O'Connor
Tune for the day
Start the day with a song in your heart, as issued by our senior forecaster at The Bureau of Musicology.