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Pre-season snow forecast

Guy Dixon, Saturday May 30, 2015 - 11:44 AEST

With just one week until the start of the 2015 snow season, conditions are looking ripe for some healthy pre-season falls.

A cold front is looking to sweep over southeastern parts of the nation late on the weekend bringing an airmass cold enough for low level snow.

The greatest amount of precipitation is looking to fall late on Sunday night where 5-15cm could accumulate down to around 1100 metres with a cooling airmass. The airmass looks to be at it's coldest by around daybreak on Monday morning, however a lot of the precipitation looks to have dried up. Throughout Monday, another 5cm is likely to fall as low as 1000 metres.

Due to the southwesterly wind direction following this front, Victorian resorts are expected to collect the best snow falls, while resorts north of the border are more protected and favour a northwesterly airflow.

This cool airmass is expected to linger throughout much of the week with only gradual warming. As a result, temperatures on the peaks should remain close to freezing making snow melt negligible. As the 2015 season kicks off on Friday, there should still be plenty of snow on the ground, despite some crusty conditions due to repeated re-freezing of the top snow layer each night.

- Weatherzone

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