Fresh powder on all Tas’ major peaks, but no certainty on further snowfall
After the dumping of vote ballots on Saturday, Tasmania braced itself for an overnight dumping of fresh snow on the major peaks. What’s in store for the week ahead.
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Tasmanians emerging from their post-vote slumber have been greeted with the sight of many snow-covered mountains across the state, including Hobart’s kunanyi/ Mt Wellington.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) confirmed that elevations as low as 400 to 500m in the south of the state received light snowfall.
Snowfall of around five to 10cm fell in the Central Plateau overnight, including Ben Lomond, but didn’t reach the north of the state.
“There was even a little bit of snow just to the north of Richmond, a few little places, a few hills, just in the north of Richmond and in Campania as well,” BOM meteorologist Michael Conway said.
This included areas like Ben Lomond, where skiers on Sunday used the fresh powder to get in some alpine action.
Great Lake Hotel near Miena on the Central Highland Plateau also received a fresh dumping of snow, with guests taking to social media to share the winter wonderland takeover.
“We’ve had a cracking snowfall overnight,” the Great Lake Hotel said.
“The day looks to be still and sunny.”
Mt Mawson in Mt Field National Park in the state’s south received a decent amount of snow cover, with live webcams online showing keen skiers on the slopes and taking respite in the shelter.
Mr Conway said conditions were too “uncertain” at the moment to predict further snowfall for the rest of the week, stating that a cold front set to cross the state on Tuesday could bring snow, but looked milder than Saturday’s windy front.
“We’re getting another cold front, not as strong as the one on Saturday and not as cold, but that should bring a little bit of snow to the west, but snow levels only dropping down around 900m, 1000m,” he said.
“That will be early Wednesday morning.
“Then we could be getting a wet Saturday coming up – some of the models are showing a system moving down from near Adelaide and bringing a band of rain over the east, but that’s a bit uncertain at the moment because it’s so far out and with these systems they can change a fair bit and change the weather dramatically so it’s definitely a watch point at the moment.”
As of Sunday afternoon, the BOM only had one current weather warning for Sunday for gale coastal winds for the south west coast and a strong wind warning for the south east and central west coasts.
For Monday, the BOM issued a strong wind warning for the far north west, upper east, lower east, south east, south west and central west coasts as well as for east of Flinders Island.
“We’ll be getting back into more settled conditions, especially Wednesday and Thursday morning could be quite frosty around the state,” Mr Conway said.
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