What's the temperature where you are???

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."
The snow looks beautiful. I have only seen real snow 1 in my life to date.

The brush fires are just nightmare, I wish the rain just down pouring over there.
 
Christmas earlier today was 67F when I walked 21 minutes and back 21 minutes in shorts and I did not see or hear any children playing
I have walked every Christmas Day morning or mid day since I have lived here (2007) and last year and this year not to see or hear any children playing outside on
443p drizzling and cooler the temp has dropped

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Christmas Day
 

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