MILDURA residents have had a frosty start to the day with the temperature plummeting to - 1.1 degrees, the coldest of the year.

The previous coldest day this year came on May 23 when the Mildura Airport recorded a chilling 0.2 degrees.

The coldest day for July 2023 came the day before on July16 with a recorded 0.5 degrees.

The coldest July temperature was in 1982 at -4 degrees and the highest t...