Brisbane weather: Snow falls in southeast as gale force winds sweep the region
Snow has fallen in parts of southeast Queensland following a brutal “winter blast” cool change, as gale-force winds up to 81km/h delivered a dramatic start to the school holidays.
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Snow has fallen in parts of southeast Queensland following a brutal cool change, as gale-force winds up to 81km/h delivered a dramatic start to the school holidays.
Flakes were seen falling late on Tuesday afternoon at Tenterfield Creek near the NSW border as temperatures plummeted.
Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Helen Reid said the southeast is experiencing a “winter blast” that will last for the next two days.
Ms Reid said the Bureau of Meteorology had reports of snow for inlands parts of the New South Wales and Queensland border region.
“It’s a windy day today - that wind chill factor makes it feel very wintery,” she said.
“The weather should start to warm up by tomorrow but it will be especially frosty in the mornings for the next couple of days.”
Marty Brown from Symphony Hill Wines at Ballandean confirmed a mixture of rain and snow had fallen on the Granite Belt on Tuesday.
“It’s freezing,” she said.
The gale-force winds that battered Queensland on Tuesday are likely to die down on Wednesday, with sunny conditions predicted for the remainder of the first week of school holidays.
There’s been a significant cool change running through the southeast region due to the heavy winds, according to weather bureau meteorologist Peter Claassen.
“There was a trough off the shore this morning, and behind that were the strongest winds,” Mr Claassen said yesterday.
Wind gusts of 72km/h were recorded at Brisbane Airport just after 1pm, while gusts of 81km/h were recorded at Wellcamp Airport near Toowoomba.
Strong winds were also recorded up to Rockhampton and at Proserpine.
The heavy winds are likely to die down by today, with plenty of sunshine in store for the remainder of the week.
But for Helen Tani, of Brisbane’s Morningside, it would take more than just a bit of wind to stop her twin girls Heidi and Elisha, 7, from enjoying school holidays.
“We were really surprised by how windy it was, but we weren’t going to let gusty winds spoil our day out,” she said.
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