Melbourne workers make their way through the cold rain too their dry warm office buildings in the CBD. Picture: Nicole Garmston
SUMMER is all but a distant memory across most of southern Australia, with a cold snap bringing biting wind and rain and even snow in the Victorian alpine areas.
Steady snow fell at Mount Hotham and Falls Creek on Wednesday morning, blanketing the winter playgrounds in a thick cover of white.
The snow comes after parts of Victoria, including some areas of Melbourne, were flooded following drenching rains late on Monday.
The first bite of winter is well and truly being felt in the southern states, with minimum temperatures tipped to continue their plunge into single digits in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania over coming days.
Northern neighbours will not escape the wintry blast either.
Snow at Mount Hotham on the morning of April 26. Picture: Hotham Alpine ResortSource:Facebook
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Bureau of Meteorology Senior Forecaster Scott Williams said the cold front that has swept up from the southern ocean will push into New South Wales and Queensland from Wednesday into Thursday, bringing some of the rain and cold the south has had.
While days in the two states will continue to be mostly sunny and warm, the front is expected to bring cold nights.
In Brisbane, the minimum is tipped to drop to 10C on Friday morning, while in Sydney, it is expected to fall to 10C Friday and Saturday mornings and 11C Sunday morning.
Mr Williams said with less than a week left of April, some parts of South Australia and Victoria had between three and four times their average rainfall for the month.
He said the cold front from the south had combined with warm tropical air that had pushed down from Australia’s north west, which had caused much higher than average autumn temperatures in the southern states than usual until just a week ago.
A clear, cool morning greets Sydney from Barangaroo on Wednesday. Picture: John GraingerSource:News Corp Australia
The volatile combination had brought the rain and thunderstorm activity, which is now pushing into NSW and southern Queensland.
“It’s linked back to the tropics, there has been a series of tropical lows, near cyclones, and a lot of moisture coming down from northwest WA,” Mr Williams said.
”There’s now a major cold frontal system as that moisture tracks down from South Australia and into Victoria that’s brought a lot of the unstable conditions and quite heavy rains that we have seen twice in the past week.”
“It’s pretty warm right through Queensland and NSW, the way its shaping up, we’re going to see above average temperatures for southern and eastern parts of Australia for April.
“Even Tasmania has had some very warm weather earlier this month, with temperatures in some areas, three to four degrees above average.”
Mr Williams said the cold air was unlikely to bring the same level of heavy that has drenched Victoria to NSW, though there would be localised downpours.
He said snow was also likely in the Snowy Mountains, with a lesser chance in the Blue Mountains.
“It has pushed from the Southern Ocean into Victoria in the last 24 hours, during Anzac Day and now the frontal system is sweeping through NSW,” he said.
“We’re seeing quite a lot of thunderstorm activity through central NSW and rainfall pushing as far north as south east Queensland.
“This system is in a two-part system, there is a trough ahead of the main cold front.
“The front will follow and push into that same area, later on today, which means storms could extend from Sydney to north of Brisbane this afternoon.”
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