While no tornadoes were reported to have touched down, skies were ablaze with lightning, with more than half a million lightning strikes recorded in under two days. That's pretty unusual for June! âš¡ï¸� /G1tfPyoIRO At one stage, the BoM even issued a short-lived tornado warning.Īround 660,000 lightning pulses were detected over Australia during the last 36 hours. As mentioned, the rain was accompanied by storms in many distriocts, and those storms in western Vic were intense. The loop below shows the lightning over Victoria last night. Numerous readings of 100 mm or more were recorded in northern Vic ![]() Mt Buller had 97.6 mm of very clear, unfrozen rain, its wettest June day in 42 years and not exactly what snow-lovers were looking for ahead of this weekend's ski season opening Strathbogie had 93 mm, its wettest June day in 105 years Rain, and plenty of it, and wild storms have lashed Victoria overnight.Īfter patchy rain in recent days, a rainband delivered heavy rain to all Victorian forecast districts on Wednesday night into Thursday morning with the exception of east Gippsland, which can expect handy falls through Thursday.īallarat had 46.2 mm, its wettest June day in 115 years Today, 9:25AM UTC Wild stormy Vic night with record rain You can see the promising front on Tuesday night's synoptic chart.įor the latest conditions and forecasts for the mountains, your best bet is to check the snow cams and more on our snow page. A cold front should arrive around the middle of next week, with early signs that it could deliver something like 15 to 35 cm of snow. Looking a little further ahead, there's definitely positive news. Will the Friday night snowmaking window be long enough to lay down a platform for rideable snow on beginner slopes? It's a race against time, but the resorts might just win it by Saturday, with an even better chance of something on offer by Sunday and Monday. To make snow, you need cold, dry air and that's what we should see over the long weekend as a high pressure system moves over the mountains. But the really positive thing about this front is that it will usher in a few nights of snowmaking weather. That's almost tropical weather for the mountains in June.Ī cold front then moved through after breakfast time, dropping daytime temps close to zero, and that's why our higher resorts saw a dusting of snow during Thursday, albeit nothing significant enough to change the overall picture.Īnother weak front will move through the Australian Alps on Friday morning, with the chance of some more light but mostly inconsequential snowfalls. ![]() We've written several stories this week at Weatherzone about warm June temps in Australia, and the mountains have been no exception – both during the day and at night.įor example in the 24 hours to 9 am Thursday, Mt Buller saw 97.6 mm of rain on its wettest June day in 42 years, with temps that stayed above 6☌ until dawn. There's an old saying in Australian snow circles that "Snow in May doesn’t pay" and while that's not always true, it has definitely been the case this year.Īt least three significant snowfalls occurred in May, but it has simply been too warm in Australia over the first week of winter to retain all but a few tiny patches of that snow at the highest elevations. Source: .īut there's no hiding from the fact that there will be no rideable snow outside snowmaking areas this weekend – and probably not much available even in snowmaking areas. Image: Barely a centimetre of fresh snow after more than 70 mm of rain over two days in Thredbo. Also, a very light fall of natural snow dusted the highest elevations of the Aussie mainland resorts this Thursday afternoon, as you can see from the latest live cam (with time stamp) at the top of Thredbo. The good news is that decent snow looks to be coming next week. Two words sum up the likely snow conditions this King's Birthday long weekend as we officially kick off the 2023 Australian snow season: not great. Today, 4:29PM UTC How's the snow season opening weekend looking?
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