Posted on 10/11/2012 4:28:05 PM PDT by BlackVeil
Snow has fallen across a large part of NSW and the ACT, despite it being over a month into spring.
There have been reports of snow in the Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands, while Canberra has received 10 centimetres.
Yesterday, South Australia witnessed a once-in-a-century October snowfall.
Sydney Ferries has cancelled the Manly service due to the weather, and the Great Western Highway is closed in both directions at Wentworth Falls.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for photos and reports of the snowfall from ABC listeners.
The Bureau of Meteorology says the snow is a result of a very cold air mass that has moved across NSW. The air mass has caused a deep low to form on the south coast which has produced the snow.
Bureau forecaster Ewen Mitchell says although the snowfall is unusual, it is not unheard of at this time of year.
"I don't think there's been hugely heavy falls. [It's been] fairly widespread," he said. "It's certainly not record breaking in terms that it's happened before."
...Katoomba resident Dawn told ABC 702 Sydney she woke to a white world.
"It's very beautiful and peaceful," she said.
Dangerous roads
Police and inspectors from Roads and Maritime New South Wales are inspecting the New England Highway after heavy snowfalls in the Northern Tablelands overnight. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
I’ve been in Australia once in October...greater Sydney.It was 80 degrees every day.
I was born in Sydney Australia. This is unusual. Has LA ever had snow? I know Florida has had frosts on occasion.
LA has had snow in the last few years (heavy at that), of course you did not see it trumpted in the media because it would embarrass the great ALGORE
S Fl has snow once every 10 years or so .
I recall a few inches dropping
In north Tampa in the 80s
Back in May of 2006, I took a bus tour of the British Isles. There were several Aussie couples on board. One Saturday we were in the Highlands, and it started snowing. It wasn’t a surprise to me because in Central New York, it’s been known to snow here that late. A couple on board the bus asked the tour guide if he could please stop the bus so they could take a picture. They said they had never seen snow before, and their friends back home wouldn’t believe them unless they had a photo to prove it.
Perhaps not the city istelf byt I'll bet the suburbs east of LA get a dusting once in a while.
I know Florida has had frosts on occasion.
Frosts and even brief freezes are not that unusual in most of Florida.Citrus and vegetable growers are always on guard during the winter.Miami has had at least one measurable snowfall in recent years,I remember seeing a newspaper front page with a huge picture.
Ooops,typos.
Yes.
That’s more typical Sydney weather. The heat would come on in Sept, and not stop till next March. Much cooler in recent years.
Los Angeles county has some pretty tall mountains, and yes, they get snow every single year.
When my family and I lived in the northernmost neighborhood of L.A. proper, the snow was never more than ten minutes from our house in winter.
Do Australian calendars run faster than ours in the U.S.?
We're not quite three weeks into autumn up here - how do they get to be over a month into spring?
Pensacola had a 2” snowfall in the winter of ‘72-’73.
That storm dumped 21” on Macon, Ga and still had enough to drop 5”-7” on Quantico.
KTLA News
5:40 a.m. PST, February 28, 2011
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — A wild storm that brought snow and hail to Los Angeles over the weekend has cleared out, but temperatures will remain chilly, forecasters said.
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-california-rain-2011-cold,0,4151998.story
I have a friend from Sydney. The first time she saw snow was when she came to visit me in Cleveland.
Isn’t it even more unusual to have snow in Canberra?
We're not quite three weeks into autumn up here - how do they get to be over a month into spring?
You are joking, right? :)
Yes, but the natives all thought it was cocaine ...
Is Algore in Sydney for one of his famous Global Warming© snake oil shows?
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