Snowing!!!!

[Outbackmanyep]

Hey everyone!

ITS SNOWING HERE IN WALCHA!

Started a 5 AM and had about 1.5 inches of snow ( snow thats actually packed down )

Walcha is 30 Degrees South and 1067 M above sea level...

Will post some pics if i get a chance as i am off to Canberra this weekend!

Any Canberra-ites had snow yet??
Guessing you do!

Cheers!

[iceman]

I saw on the news last night that Canberra has already had snow!

[matt]

Yep.

We had snow on the Brindabellas...

and a variety of suburbs around the city including at my place in the north of Canberra:D

Didn't settle, but was weirdd to see some little snowflakes falling in the middle of November

[wavelandscott]

I had a chuckle with my wife about this November weather and snow...

As we both grew up in North America we would see the occassional snow in November...I know it is extremely unusual here (been in Sydney 5.5 years) but "mentally" the weather the last few days seems right to me for November...blowy and chilly.

Who knows, maybe we can have a white Christmas in Australia! :eyepop:

[Outbackmanyep]

Hey Matt!
I'll be in Tuggeranong this weekend, my mums tenpin team made the state finals and i'll be driver/spectator, so i'll be going to have a look at Tidbinbilla and Mt Stromlo while im there too.....
Havent been to Canberra since 1990! I was 11 yo then!
Cheers!

[ving]

weird weather... you the gods have gone crazy alright!!! :screwy:

[Outbackmanyep]

Heres a pic looking out my backyard, the tree isnt mine its in a paddock!
But this was the fall of snow at 7am.

Cheers!

[ving]

i had to go to whereis to find out where walcha is..... its in between tamworth and armidale right!

bloomin 'ell! that picture looks like the snowies in peak ski season!!!! :eek:

[Outbackmanyep]

Sure is Vingy!
So im not too far from getting to IISAC next year! Just down the road!
As you can see we have no lifts operating!!! If it was between June and August it'd still be there now!
All snow has melted now!
Easy come easy go!

Cheers!

[GrahamL]

I remember Walcha now :).. A friend worked there last year (building a stone wall for a graziers mansion ) .. he did have a good whine about the winter weather there .. must show him your pic ..haha:lol:

[acropolite]

:lol2: and you guys reckon it's cold in Tassie....We had snow too but only on the mountains.

[Shawn]

Hey guys,,,your right, check out my thread, just above this one,"The Roos are thirsty" what extremes,,,

S

[sheeny]

I've done that! Well... almost... it has snowed in Oberon on Christmas Day during the time that I've lived here (about 20 years) - but it didn't settle.

I believe there are only two days of the year that snow hasn't fallen in Oberon in recorded history and they are both in February. I can't remember the dates...

With everyone getting snow these days it seems a bit strange to be missing out! It must be the drought!;)

Al.

[spacezebra]

Brrrrrrrrrrrrr its been chilly here :sadeyes: we have had the winter woolies out.. Snow at Falls Creek .

Cheers Petra

[jjjnettie]

I bet they'll have lost a few sheep around your way. Shearing would have started already? Brrrr.

[h0ughy]

lamb popsicles?:shrug:

although I did see on a news report a herd of sheep in jackets:thumbsup: wollen jumpers made in china:D :whistle:

[jjjnettie]

I think they put out grazier alerts so they know to yard their shorn sheepies together to keep em warm.
You could lose your whole flock overnight otherwise.

[Gargoyle_Steve]

There has been some amount of snow in Qld, around the border area near Stanthorpe, etc, as has happened previously (though nt so often in November) however I saw a report on the local tv station today that 2 different people reported snow flakes falling in the Coolum area around 5am this morning (sorry, Thursday morning, after midnight now) - for those who do not know Coolum it is on the northern end of the Sunshine Coast (approx 26 degrees south) and Coolum IS a beach community, right there on the big beautiful ocean! As far as I know snow has never been reported in or near this region, ever.

In fact - I have never seen snow, and for years I have joyfully been telling people it's all a hoax anyway, but that's another story.

:poke:

[[1ponders]]

Steve, I went to school at Cooroy. We had snow and sleet fall there in about '75. Mind you that was in the middle of Winter with a howling SWer. I refused to wear shorts to school after that day.:cold: :cold: :cold:

[ving]

had snow in chatswood once... i swear! :)

[Gargoyle_Steve]

That's amazing Paul!!! I had never heard of it snowing anywhere near the coast here.

I found a link that refers to the Coolum snow report:

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3709879&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=

I do remember some years ago being camped out about an hour WSW of Toowoomba and we had sleet, etc. One local Toowoomba radio station had reports of snow about 30 miles from our location - they had a competition for the first person to bring a cup of genuine snow into the studios. But that's Toowoomba, you sort of expect that kind of cold out that way a little bit more.

[gaa_ian]

Hmmm funny ... not so much as a flake here !

[Gargoyle_Steve]

Ian if you HAD seen any snow up there I would be very very worried indeed!

:eyepop: