Snow arrives early in High Country, and brings NSW a wintry blast

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Winter has come early at Selwyn Snow Resort, with overnight snowfalls0:31

Temperatures dropped yesterday with residents of Selwyn Snow Resort waking this morning to fifteen centimetres of fresh snow.

• April 10th 2017
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Snow at Falls Creek overnight. Picture: Twitter/Falls Creek

IT puking snow in the NSW High Country, with the big ski resorts waking to a winter wonderland this morning. And it’s only Autumn.

Up to 20cm of snow in the Snowy Mountains overnight heralded Sydney’s first wintry blast for 2017: temperatures in the city dropped to 12C overnight, with the chill coming straight off the snow down south.

It’s two months until the official start of the ski season, but ski resorts in Victoria woke up to 20cm of snow, and this morning the dusting that had begun to cover the NSW Snowy Mountains had turned to full-on snowstorm.

#Snow is currently falling at Thredbo, expected to turn into rain later today. Get out while you can! #NSWWeather #Winteriscoming pic.twitter.com/e2Wbezm3Om

— BOM New South Wales (@BOM_NSW) April 9, 2017

“Snowing all the way to the village, more on the way”, tweeted Thredbo Resort.

At Perisher, they were building the first snowman of the season as the blizzard whipped up.

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Snowing all the way to the village, more on the way #lovewinter pic.twitter.com/cIKB5fwRlu

— Thredbo (@ThredboResort) April 9, 2017

It’s all come out of a cold front that moved through Victoria on Sunday morning sending temperatures plummeting and whipping up wild winds, torrential rain, and left Melbourne with flash flooding before heading into NSW.

The storm in Sydney on Sunday night left 900 people without power, and then a city shivering.

The cold is biting in the NSW Central and Southern Tablelands and the Southwest slopes, with a sheep graziers alert warning of cold temperatures, heavy rain and showers and strong south-westerly winds today.

The first snowman of the season is taking shape this morning @PerisherResort #perisher pic.twitter.com/YLNdpJWF9p

— Perisher Ski Resort (@PerisherResort) April 10, 2017

Severe damaging wind warnings for those areas warn of gusts up to 90km/h this afternoon around Orange in the central west and Katoomba in the Blue Mountains.

Sydney residents will be busting out the scarfs for a few days yet with the Bureau of Meteorology forecasting cloudy weather, chilly winds and possible rain until Thursday.

For the Easter weekend, early forecasts are for a shower or two on Friday with a maximum of 23C in Sydney.

Saturday and Sunday are forecast to be mostly sunny. So that Easter camping trip tradition isn’t a washout yet.

It will stay chilly down south, with the snow tipped to turn to rain overnight. Once that eases, the temperatures will stay low, with a minus of minus 2C forecast for Perisher Valley on Good Friday.

Meanwhile, Melbourne, lashed by the wild cold front over the weekend is today cleaning up from the flashflooding and wind damage as conditions ease.

Mount Hotham woke to this. Picture: Facebook/Mount HothamSource:Twitter