July Overlook & One Love (The Station)

Well July got a nice amount of snow and there seems to have been plenty of deep dry snow all over the resorts with Perisher looking very nice today having had a large dump of snow followed by little top ups till today and Thredbo is looking similar.

Heres how Perisher and Thredbo are looking





The graph is sitting just below 120cm which seems to have fallen possibly due to some rain or warm temperature but as we look ahead for August i think there is defiantly some large scale snowfalls on the way :). I am currently observing a system setting up for the week of the 12th of August which i will post more detailed on next week!

One love will be visiting the snow this year playing at the station on Saturday August 15th, Should be a good night and hopefully some good snow that week as well.

Mid Week Outlook & Torstein Horgmo Clip

Well looks like that little system has developed into something nice looking at hitting around Tuesday night and following through until Friday. The current depth is sitting at 111.8cm which is great! So this storm will hopefully get that over the 130cm mark!

Heres the GFS Run for Wednesday (From weatherzone)



Heres the latest graph from Snowy Hydro..



Heres a clip of young rider Torstein Horgmo shreddin the park for DC in the film Aesthetica that i came across.

i love his ridin.

Upcoming Storm & Pics

After looking very daunting at first the latest GFS run seems to have slightly improved which now is looking like we will see more snow then rain out of this one.
There still will most likely be pre-frontal rain in the southern resorts which will not be too welcomed but the system seems as though it will improve through next week.

Heres a look at the forecast for Monday





I'm hoping that little rain falls for Saturday & Sunday and that the resorts accumulate at least a 10-15cm top up out of this rather then loosing snow.

Heres some pics from Thredbo's site of the Freeride series





Ill keep you updated when the snow starts to fall!

Snowy Saturday

The resorts are not looking too bad after being topped up with some snow over the last couple of days.



Thredo not looking too bad.

Thredbo today has the Freeride Series taking place in the High Noon Terrain Park. while Perisher is set up for the big ACP demo day, which includes the Burton demo from my earlier post.



Perisher still holding its cover

On a quick weather note, the snow should fall on and off today and hopefully continue this pattern up until Monday.

Enjoy the weekend!

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.

Snow Snow Snow!

I was a bit concerned at first, for the early season snow when i looked on the snow cams and saw about 5cm of man made snow on front valley 1 day before the opening weekend. But then weather like this arrives:

Then it keeps snowing so that when we wake up on a cold Wednesday morning here in Sydney all we think about is how much it snowed last night.. So we look:

Smiggins looking already better then what it did at any point in 2006
















Mt P, looking very tasty.

Now it is only June 10 and with the depth showing around 65cm im hoping that this season will be a screamer but my own trip isn't planned for just under 2 months away so lets hope it stays wet over the mountains. Ill be posting forecasts regularly on here so stay tuned.

Images from www.ski.com.au