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Winter holding on in the mountains

Ben Domensino, Monday October 10, 2016 - 16:14 AEDT

Spring is struggling to get going in the alps this year, with another pulse of antarctic air hitting the region tonight.

A strong cold front has dropped the temperature in Australia's southeast today, with snow currently falling in the alps and highland Tasmania. The wintry scenes come less than a week after Spencers Creek in New South Wales recorded its latest seasonal peak in snow depth for 54 years.

As a coldest part of this air mass surges over the alps tonight, temperatures are expected to dip well below freezing. The forecast minimum of minus six at Falls Creek would be their lowest October temperature since 2010.

There won't be heavy snow in the alps this evening due to an unfavourable southwesterly wind direction, although the cold air will produce snow down to about 700-800 metres in Victoria and 500 metres in western Tasmania tonight.

- Weatherzone

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