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The snow looks beautiful. I have only seen real snow 1 in my life to date.Snow flurries in NSW alps and Tasmanian ski fields give locals an early Christmas present
As bushfires rage out of control in Victoria and parts of Queensland count the cost of recent floods, residents in the NSW Snowy Mountains and Tasmania woke this morning to find snow on the ground.
The Bureau of Meteorology had forecast snow to fall above 1,700 metres in the NSW alps today, but some locals have reported sightings of snow flurries as low as Cooma at 800m elevation.
Further south, snowfields in Tasmania recorded up to 5 centimetres of snow down to 1,500 metres.
Errol Hanlon from the Thredbo Alpine Museum said snow settled on shady ground, car windscreens, back decks and some rooftops around the village.
"We definitely woke up to a snow flurry," he said.
"It's an early present for all the little kids running around in their pyjamas this morning trying to make snowballs and snowmen."
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The snow caused excitement at Thredbo Village. (Supplied: Errol Hanlon, Thredbo Alpine Museum)
Thredbo Top Station recorded a low of -2.3 degrees Celsius just before 8am, a stark contrast to other parts of northern NSW where total fire bans have been declared.
Mr Hanlon described snowfall at this time of year as "unusual", especially given the 30-degree temperatures experienced last week.
"The climate here is as radical as the rest of Australia," he said.
"It's swings and roundabouts and it's pretty hard to predict.
"This is the first time this has happened in the last eight or nine years."