Tasmanians shiver through record cold RESIDENTS in parts of Tasmania's central highlands have shivered through their coldest morning on record. Just before dawn on Tuesday the mercury plunged to minus 12.2 degrees in Liawenee, a small town 140km north of Hobart. It was the lowest temperature in the area since records began in 1985 and close to Tasmania's lowest recorded temperature of minus 13 degrees in 1983. Another local record was set at nearby Ross, where the temperature hit minus 6.5 degrees on Tuesday morning. The Bureau of Meteorology's Lorien Martin said cold fronts had pushed a mass of freezing air over the state, where clear skies and light winds combined to push the temperature even lower. Down the road from Liawenee, at Miena, the cold wasn't worrying local real estate agent Gaylene Potter. I've got the grandkids outside. They're tobogganing and having a great time in the snow," she told AAP. You wouldn't want to be anywhere else - it's like a fairytale. Forecasters say temperatures in the central highlands will rise slowly over the next few days but minimums will remain below zero until Sunday. Australia's lowest recorded temperature is minus 23 degrees, at Charlotte Pass in the Snowy Mountains in 1994.