Big Snowfalls Ahead

I was going to post earlier about this one but i decided id wait until it was closer to actually happening. With 3 days out i woke up this morning for a quick look at the charts to see a very promising update!



The weak high that's settling over WA is pushing the deep southern low right into perfect position for a solid dumping of snow. There seems to be a great deal of moisture on the cards for most of next week also. The only slight problem is that cold line. Perisher is forecast for +1 for the valley for Wednesday which could possible make this more of a wet snowfall rather then a some soft dry snow.






So keep the eyes on the cams Tuesday night and Wednesday and hopefully by next Sunday we will have well over a metre of snow on the ground.

Courtesy of weatherzone & ski.com.au

NZ Snow

I understand that when i made this blog i named it Aus-Snow to mainly focus on just the Australian side of snow but with NZ so close and such a beautiful snow destination, i thought id include the occasional look at whats happening in their land.

I was trying to put together a forecast for next weekend when i noticed this:


Now, im no guru when it comes to long range weather forecasting but Ive developed a decent knowledge on it as im also very interested in it, particularly around the winter months due to snowfall. This graph is showing some serious moisture landing all over NZ which is looking at focusing on the northern resorts of the south island, hopefully giving them a decent dumping

I will keep an eye on it and see what happens.

Weather Model sourced from weatherzone.com

Snowfall outlook

Today is Saturday here in Australia and ill be posting an extensive outlook for the snow over the next few days for the Australian Alps.

Lets begin starting today:

The weather is currently 6 degrees at the perisher valley and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much moisture around but there is a slight chance for a dusting over the peaks. It would most likely fall as rain around the village as the freezing level is sitting just a little bit high.



Tomorrow, being Sunday the 21st of June there is a small bit of hope some
of continuing throughout the day. Although unfortunately the freezing level may be too high for snowfall to accumulate on the lower valley. However we may see some snowfall above 1700-1750m (1-3cm) throughout the nigh.

Further outlook, over the next couple of days there looks like a small system will arrive on Tuesday giving the resorts a top up through until Friday which will hopefully add to the snow level.

As you can see the snow depth is on the decline, but ive added the last seasons graph just so you can see the difference.

My weather images have been resourced from weatherzone and my snow levels from the Snowy Hydro homepage.