BATHURST experienced another one of those cold winter days on Tuesday when the maximum temperature of 10.2 degrees Celsius was below the long term average for July.

Bathurst can usually expect average July maximum temperatures of 11.2C but this year has seen below average maximums on seven days when the mercury has struggled to rise above 10C.

On Monday after an overnight 4.5C the mercury climbed to 10.2C only 5.7 degrees between high and low.

It was much the same yesterday after an overnight -3.5 with a chilly wind blowing and temperatures that felt like 5.4C for most the day in wind gust around 50km/h.

The city experienced two bitterly cold days when temperatures hovered between 2.8C and 7.6C only 4.8 degrees difference in the 24 hours of Friday, July 11.

With a slightly smaller 4.7 degrees margin between a high 9.1C and low -4.4C on Tuesday, July 8.

Bathurst has now endured a run of nine days out of 22 with chilly minus temperatures and overnight frosts.

More frosts have been predicted for the next five days but not as severe as our coldest -4.4C overnight reading of Tuesday, July 8.

That minimum, however, is well above our lowest -8.9C minimum ever recorded in July 1971. The city has also experienced a past maximum as low as 3C in July 1986.

The cold weather has been hard for many people to put up with because most residents have been conditioned to days generally one to two degrees above normal, averages of 12.5C overall including one maximum of 15.4C four above average for the month.