A vigorous cold front pounded the southeast yesterday with damaging winds, snow, showers and icy cold temperatures. The highest recorded wind gust was a massive 137kmh at Wilsons Promontory and the maximum temperature in Orange, NSW, only got to 5 degrees! But while everyone was shivering, the ski resorts lapped up the winter chill with snowy blizzards delivering around 5-10cm of fresh powder. The picture above is from Mount Buller. Selwyn Snowfields picked up 17cm and with a 32 hour marathon of man-made snowmaking, the resort will likely open this weekend with 2 lifts.
In Tasmania, snow fell as low as 400m turning towns like Waratah into a winter wonderland. With cold air heading east out of Tasmania today, the snow is retreating up to 1200m by tonight but will be back down to 700m tomorrow. A Bushwalkers Alert is current for southern , western and central Tasmania.
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