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Pre-summer snow
Ben Domensino, Thursday November 24, 2016 - 10:50 AEDT
Season-defiant snow has blanketed mountain tops in Australia's southeast, one week out from the beginning of summer.
A pair of cold fronts earlier in the week brought a big drop in temperatures across the region. Melbourne went from 35 degrees on Monday to a top of just 15 on Tuesday, although and even colder pool of air reached the alps on Wednesday.
Mount Hotham dropped below freezing around 5pm yesterday and stayed there until 10am today, reaching a low of minus four degrees. Yesterday's maximum at the airport was just six degrees, the coldest day in a month.
In Tasmania, Liawenee had also had its coldest day in a month yesterday, reaching a top of six degrees. Snow peppered mountain tops around the state overnight, including Ben Lomond in the north and Mount Wellington in the south.
This latest season-defiant snowfall comes off the back of an unusually stubborn Australian snow season, which had the best snow depth in 24 years on the ground at the beginning of November.
Unfortunately for snow-lovers, this morning's wintry scenes will be short-lived. The shallow cover is already melting in most areas as temperatures climb back into positive territory.
The highest weather station in Australia at Thredbo is forecast to reach six degrees today, which is still six below average for November but certainly too warm to maintain snow.
While the late-November snow was impressive, it's certainly not unprecedented. Weather stations that just saw snow have recorded lower maximum and minimum temperatures during summer. Most Tasmanian residents will also know that the lofty peaks of Mount Wellington can receive snow during any month of the year.
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