Mega Thread Alpine and Southern Summer Weather Hotplate

Summer snowfall at Buller

 

Cedarwood looking quite nice.

Looking like at least a few cms so far.

 

Perisher..... starting to stick now. Minus one and snowing steady above around 1750 ASL. Summer .

 

Looking good on the cams, haven't read comments on totals, but we thinking 40cm or so for NSW?

 

Probably more like 15-25cm all up.

 

Hmm Access totals much higher, I'd expect more

 

Fly South for Winter they said.....it’s Summer down there ....

 

AXS-R has been particularly bullish on precip totals for the last month or two.
It looks to me BoM's WATL siding with OCF/EC:


Tomorrow AM 5-11am holds the most promise for particular heavy falls with the passing of the trough and secondary front.

Tuesday looks to be a non-event for NSW.

Short duration says to me accumulations in the 15-20cm range for Main Range above 1600m are about right IMO.

A lot of low-level stuff in the Bight, with very little depth indicative of low PW figures IMO:

 

My other half is cruising down the NSW coast from Sydney tonight with gale warnings in place. Tomorrow’s scheduled crossing of Bass Strait has been cancelled and they’re stopping in Eden instead. Would have been an entertaining trip I reckon.

 

Snowing heavy this afternoon near eyre tbar, did someone say summer? What's that.

 

7mm at Perisher since 9am.
9mm at Buller but marginal temps below 1700m, going off the AWS.

 

I know i said it would be a year of Anomalies but this is getting rediculous.

 

Nothing at Moonbah in respect to rain.... just a bit of evening cloud coming off the mountains....

 

Won't happen.
You can already see Buller AWS (1700m) is marginal @ +0.3C with 10mm fallen with just a dusting in the village.
Too marginal for Buffalo.

 

Jindabyne this morning clear snow line, 2nd day of summer.

 

According to cams Buller looks to have picked up about 2-4cm.
With Perisher and Thredbo on perhaps 4-6cm coverage.

 

Falls Creek on the other hand looks like it’s picked up perhaps 15-20cm.

Hotham looks not far behind it.

 

Summary thus far (1,290 m AMSL; 35° 59' 52.08" S): low temp of 0.5° C at 5:34 AM (foredawn), currently 1.1° C; intermittent snow flurries, with 5.8 mm in the gauge.

 

Decent dusting at LM too. Only a dusting because the temp didn't get down to 0 until 5am.

 

Looking great this morning at DP

 

Good coverage. I'd be guessing 10-15cm there?
Suns out too.

@SMSkier any rumbles this morning?

 

Not locally. Mixed bag here currently. Sun, cloud and some occasional light rain. Just 2mm registered here so far. Cool though. Looking towards the border.....

 

Baw Baw is getting in on the snowfall:

 

Transitioned back into common rainfall, albeit with sleety mix; 6.3 mm registered.

Maximum reading currently standing at 3.1° C, and forecast to remain below 5° C via TWC—not considering the 9:00 AM reset.

 

Here’s the princess hwy this morning.

 

Not good.

 

"First tracks" up Buffalo this morning...

 

Buller via FB, about 10cm apparently:

Perisher via FB:

 

Also reported that " Great Alpine road closed to Hotham and between Falls Creek and Omeo Highway"

 

Charlottes Pass this morning, beautiful, lucky snowplough ploughed a track for us.

 

Check out the satellite! This is a big system, especially for summer.

 

Maximum temperature here still standing at 3.1° C, and now down to 1.8° C; snow showers.

 

The URL you shared (snow-forecast.com/GFS) forecasted 19cm for last night... that never happened (as suggested and which you agreed).

Looks like 4-5cm at best, in line with Buller Village.

 

It’s melting quick but there’s been a good amount up high. The alpine in NSW has had a decent snowfall. Existent drifts prior to this event should be good once it clears.

Currently it seems that the weather is contracting to the peaks.