Spring may have officially sprung, but many of the grey nomads currently basking in the tropical sunshine may be well advised not to rush south too quickly.
While the calendar may suggest the temperatures across the country should be on the up and up, the reality on the snow-covered ground of parts of Victoria, Tasmania and elsewhere is very, very different.
Meteorologists say a ‘vigorous’ system is expected to cause chaos as it moves across Victoria and Australia’s southeast, bringing with it the biggest snow dump of the year. The white stuff is expected to make landfall down to 400 metres in Victoria today, as low as 300 metres across Tasmania, including some suburbs in Hobart, and 500 metres in Southern NSW.
There will be blizzard conditions in the Victorian Alps, and snow is expected at Ballarat and the Otways near Geelong. The New South Wales Snowy Mountains is expected to cop a metre of snow this week, while Tassie’s Cradle Valley could get up to 70 centimetres.
A bushwalker alert is in place, and any hardy grey nomad currently donning the hiking boots for a Tassie trek is warned that tracks such as the Overland expected to be hit hard by snow.
However, all is not lost.
Despite all the current evidence to the contrary, September is expected to be a warmer than average month on the Apple Isle.
“It is shaping up to be a normal spring, as is the case with spring you can get a few systems carry on post winter,” said the Bureau of Meteorology’s Luke Johnston. “It’s not uncommon to get this sort of system through.”
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This type of weather is why I cut up a truck load of firewood logs each year.
Wodheater has the house at a cosy 23-25c & I am sitting at the computer looking out over to the snow covered hills of Glen Huon here in Southern Tassie -magnificent but I am pleased the neighbours are agisting cattle on our land as I also watched her feeding out hay this morning in light snow -fortunately we were having breakfast at the time & unable to lend a hand. lol.
David