If you have been scraping ice from the windscreen of your car each morning, you're not alone.

Melbourne is shivering through its coldest start to winter in 36 years, with an average minimum temperature of less than 5 degrees in the past six days.

The Bureau of Meteorology says it's been the coldest start to winter in 36 years. Credit:Joe Armao

The Bureau of Meteorology says Melburnians have woken to a string of chilly mornings in a pattern of weather that has not been recorded since the first week of winter in 1982.

Early risers in the eastern suburbs woke to a blanketing of heavy fog, which has since cleared as the mercury hovered at 5.5 degrees in Melbourne just before 9am on Wednesday.