FED: Summer snow at Thredbo

AAP General News (Australia)
12-27-1998
FED: Summer snow at Thredbo

CANBERRA, Dec 27 AAP - It came too late for a white Christmas but snow has fallen on the
New South Wales Snowy Mountains today in a rare December display.

A Thredbo resort spokeswoman said light snow fell yesterday and this morning but quickly
turned to rain.

"It snowed really briefly but it wasn't a white Christmas or anything," she said.

The Bureau of Meteorology said snow was recorded at Thredbo and Charlottes Pass.

"It's quite unusual for this time of year," a spokesman said.

The summer snow was the result of a cold front which had developed over the south-eastern
corner of the continent, covering most of Victoria and southern NSW, he said.

"That is combined with a very intense low pressure system in Bass Strait which is producing
the snow and gale force winds."

The midday temperature at Thredbo was minus 2 degrees, and there was a 36 knot wind, the
spokesman said.

"Those conditions should moderate overnight. We don't expect the snow to continue beyond
today."

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KEYWORD: SNOW

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