Snow in Australia?

[TarnishedPenny]

A full metre of snow?

Did you guys forget to pay your electricity bill or something?

Environment

Antarctic winds trigger rare snowfall across southeast Australia

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Antarctic air reaching Australia’s south east triggered snowfall down to low altitudes across several states on Saturday, with many people out enjoying the rare event despite wild winds and heavy snow that closed some roads.

Pictures of snowy towns and landscapes across New South Wales (NSW), Victoria, the Australia Capital Territory and the island state of Tasmania flooded social media as locals rushed to capture the surprise early spring snowfall.

“We’ve seen light #snow make it to #Canberra today, and yes even heard a few rogue flakes landed on Parliament House,” in the nation’s capital, the Bureau of Meteorology said in a Twitter post.

Over one metre (3.3 feet) of snow had fallen in a number of alpine regions, and the cold weather would likely remain for several days, the bureau said.

“It’s awesome,” Raj Kumar told the Seven Network. Kumar had travelled from Sydney with his family to see the snow in the town of Oberon in NSW’s Blue Mountains, an area that was under threat from widespread bushfires last year.

“I think it’s better than Perisher Valley,” referring to a popular snow resort about a four-hour drive south of Oberon.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...fall-across-southeast-australia-idUSKBN25I08T

 

[ElectricBlue]

Tasmania has regular snow in winter, and where I grew up in northern NSW, up on the Great Dividing Range, we'd get the occasional snowfall.

Snow in Canberra is rare, but the winter weather there is cold. Not northern hemisphere cold, but still cold enough. Wind chill of minus ten, that kind of cold.

Consider, however, the name of our highest mountain region - The Snowy Mountains. There's the clue, I think .

 

[Bramblethorn]

A full metre of snow?

Did you guys forget to pay your electricity bill or something?

It's a big country. We have several different types of weather

No snow where I am, but it's cold. I'm not getting out of bed until I have to, which is sadly way too soon.

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

Last time I was in Aus there was ice and frost on the ground around Melbourne Airport.

Switched planes to Sydney and we were in 30c degree heat with an hour or so.

Also seen a 25c degree swing day on day in Adelaide from 45c to 20c. If the temperature had dropped that far back home, it would have been minus 23c.

 

[oggbashan]

Australia has some ski resorts.

 

[PennameWombat]

Simple. We’ve run out of virgins to sacrifice to the Gods of Warm Weather. Drop bears can smell a foreign virgin tourist from miles away. But with COVID, no tourists.

And during this snowpocalypse here in Sydney we sat at sidewalk cafes and I went for a long walk along the Cooks River Walkway in abundant sunshine.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

Simple. We’ve run out of virgins to sacrifice to the Gods of Warm Weather. Drop bears can smell a foreign virgin tourist from miles away. But with COVID, no tourists.

And during this snowpocalypse here in Sydney we sat at sidewalk cafes and I went for a long walk along the Cooks River Walkway in abundant sunshine.

I did immediately wonder what the drop bears thought of the snow...

 

[ElectricBlue]

I did immediately wonder what the drop bears thought of the snow...

Footprints. Easy to follow.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

Footprints. Easy to follow.

Ah! Of course...

 

[PennameWombat]

Ah! Of course...

The bunyips, on the other hand... not so happy. They're creatures of the outback waterways, or, so they say. If you've met one, well, you're not likely going to provide a description except by seance.

 

[Rustyoznail]

I'm sitting at my work desk (in the dining room). About half a mile to my right is the ocean and there's nothing between here and Antarctica.

The wind does get a bit frosty.

 

[kissedcherry]

The Man From Snowy River

Snow in the land down under? Never heard of it. Someone should make a movie called The Man From Snowy River.

 

[colddiesel]

Snow in the land down under? Never heard of it. Someone should make a movie called The Man From Snowy River.

They should not call it a river either. Hardly any water has flowed for the last 70 years - it has been diverted for HEP and irrigation. Some minor flows allowed in the last few years to placate environmentalists.

To illustrate Australia's dryness, our greatest river has less flow than the USA's 100th.

 

[Rustyoznail]

They should not call it a river either. Hardly any water has flowed for the last 70 years - it has been diverted for HEP and irrigation. Some minor flows allowed in the last few years to placate environmentalists.

To illustrate Australia's dryness, our greatest river has less flow than the USA's 100th.

None of our rivers really compare to rivers overseas.

 

[ElectricBlue]

None of our rivers really compare to rivers overseas.

Except maybe length, if you consider the whole Murray- Darling. Certainly not volume - although the northern rivers do a nice flood on occasion.

 

[SisterJezabel]

Cold in Brisbane too- sub 20°C temps...

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Cold in Brisbane too- sub 20°C temps...

Oh, no! I feel your pain, Sis! Be brave.