I’ll be leaving Blackheath for work in Lithgow just after 4. Will be back after 1am. Could be an interesting drive.
Heavy snowfalls at Dinner Plain this morning with plenty more to come looking at the radar. First couple of pics are approx 1200-1300m with the snow beginning around 800-900m
Take pics. I'm sure I'm preaching to the converted here - but drive safe. Could be pretty icy by then
Look at those Sea Level temps in SW Vic atm - Warrnambool 4.5c and belting down rain. Spectacular really. The "blob" is currently moving North towards Ballarat....
Yup was just about to comment on this. It’s real cold air out that way atm. Mortlake is 3.3c and raining, sits at 140m asl. Surely once that hits around Ballarat region it would fall as snow ?
6 degrees at broken hill this morning with rain. bbrrrr. Wind has kicked off in Dubbo in the last hour. Pollen storm. Big fluffy flowers of the shit raining down out of my liquid amber tree.
Falls Creek: Chains are being fitted to 2WD vehicles at The Orange Bridge. Engaged 4WD excepted. AWD are advised to fit chains.
Game on at the usual Mr. T. XC ski locations.... The imaginary women's Nordic ski team have already waxed up their skis and are heading out there now. Whiskey Flat The Falls Creek Table o Meter Lake Mtn. TBJ at Mt. Stirling ( 1270 M. )
It is really nuking down in DP, elite flake size. Huge. Impressive to see, even the late Sep solar energy seemingly defeated
Western/central vic very cold atm! Ballarat down to 2.3c and there just about to cop heavy precipitation. Airies inlet right on the coast sitting on 3.9c
Ballarat down to 1.6c and precipitation falling. Airies inlet 3.8c on the beach. Sheoakes 3.5c which I think is about 150-200m asl
We're getting a lot of rain in Canberra by traditional winter system standards, I think this is going to be a big storm.
Came up bogong yesterday to check base quality prior to storm. Most chutes got thin 100m vertical in. Snowed heavily from 1am at my camp 1700m. Light to moderate NW, that has continued all day. Approx 20cm by 7am at my sheltered location drifts of up to 30-40 up top in loaded pockets. Cold good quality snow that came in light unfortunately. No prefrontal sludge to get a base underneath so quite tricky to choose routes. Whiteout all Morning, in the trees would be good for depth perception but there's no base. Only gullies worth skiing yesterday were death cookie, cable layer and bogerama with afternoon gully run having some good turns. Hasn't stopped snowing light to mod all day. Drying out at the hut hoping for some clearing in the morning. This load fell on edgable rimed crystals from wed and although it came in with moderate NW wind hasnt formed any consolidated slabs I have seen but the vis has kept me conservative today. ☺
The temperature is down to 5 degrees and feels like 0. Over 10mm of rain since 9am and more to come on the radar. Why couldn't this have been a few weeks ago?
Cycling today was OK until the next band of rain came through NE Melbourne and then the temperature dropped considerably .
