Deep low and cold outbreak: September 22-29

[3030WX]

Friend reports it is snowing at Gisborne.

[Gordon]

A couple of pics from home just now. Not bad for mid-afternoon in late September!

[WeatherViewer]

Friend reports it is snowing at Gisborne.

Amazing, now please snow in Truganina...
Our elevation is far to low, wishful thinking though.

[hillybilly]

Fascinating system developing. The cold pool is just moving up on Melbourne now, and the trailing rainband is a warm front on the backside. Temperatures up here in the Nongs are falling quickly ahead of the rain - dropped from 6C to 2.9C in the last two hours. Expecting it to snow shortly

This system is like that in August 2008 which was a short sharp cold pool with strong diabatic cooling under the precip bands.

[3030WX]

Amazing, now please snow in Truganina...
Our elevation is far to low, wishful thinking though.

In my 65 years of living in Wyndham, nearly all of which were in Werribee, it has only snowed once. That was in the late 1960s and it melted as soon as it hit the ground. Still it would be such a novelty to report snow in an observation.

[Macedonian]

Full white cover here for the second time today. Sitting on zero now

[James]

so when does it actually happen in melb and suburbs? not the heavy rain and storms day predicted here??

[Skywalker]

Friend reports it is snowing at Gisborne.

Amazing, now please snow in Truganina...
Our elevation is far to low, wishful thinking though.

More chance of winning the lottery than seeing such things in this western dump.

Wet trip home from work coming up.

[Dane]

Video taken by me this afternoon here in Sebastopol. I userd my wifes phone
as my battery was flat.

[Skywalker]

Video taken by me this afternoon here in Sebastopol. I userd my wifes phone
as my battery was flat.

Not on facebook, can't see it.

[Gordon]

Fascinating system developing. The cold pool is just moving up on Melbourne now, and the trailing rainband is a warm front on the backside. Temperatures up here in the Nongs are falling quickly ahead of the rain - dropped from 6C to 2.9C in the last two hours. Expecting it to snow shortly

This system is like that in August 2008 which was a short sharp cold pool with strong diabatic cooling under the precip bands.

As nice as it is to get more snow here, the extraordinary thing is that Rokewood/ Cressy snow. That pic I posted earlier (third one after the Otways pics) is at the entrance to Rokewood at 12.09pm today - and Rokewood is a mere 179m asl! Absolute blizzard with 50 cent flakes, settling and 0C on the car thermometer.

While I realise proper snow occasionally falls even lower in Vic, that is by far the lowest I've ever seen settling snow myself.

[Macca2395]

Quite substantial snowfall here in Lancefield. Wasn’t expecting this!

[Didjman]

A few flakes here again. Not like a month ago though yet. Heavy in Romsey

[StratoBendigo]

Just saw this on Twitter - Heavy rain on the SW coast has created a new waterfall:

[hillybilly]

Had heavy snow here for about 30 minutes. Still getting colder, and more precip so might yet settle. Settled on the car, but not really anywhere else.

Here's a video I put up on twitter just before

[hillybilly]

Snow cleared here leaving a light cover on the car and plants. Not quite cold enough to settle on the grass. Chilly one for spring with a min of 1.3C mid arvo. Didn’t expect us to get snow today, so a nice surprise Was big flakes coming down thick for about an hour so a decent event.

Clearing for a while now, but showers will surge again tomorrow which looks like being a wet day. Persistent swly warm air advection that will add up on the slopes and south.

Scored just on 10mm since 9am so event up to about 25mm. Only need 70mm to my monthly average

[Gordon]

BOM says coldest September day for Ballarat in 51 years! Max of 5.8C, zero at midday.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-25/ ... t/12705416

[snowfall]

Well that was a nice surprise! It snowed heavily here for about an hour in the mid-afternoon and settled on the ground. The temp dropped to exactly 0c.

Great to hear all the snow reports around the place. Wasn’t at all expecting this today!

[Australis(Shell3155)]

No Snow here.. butt...
Lots of rain now... well needed drink that's for sure..
some are really heavy falls, no wind so straight down..

[hillybilly]

Decent band of rain here the last couple of hours. Scored about 10mm so far, and still coming down with thick fog and gusty winds. MTD trying hard to catch up to where it should be, and now just shy of 70mm. Still need about 60mm to score the monthly average. A bit over 20mm since this time yesterday in the gauge. Wasn’t up to see it but suspect it snowed again here for a period around 3am. We had 5mm or so and the temperature dropped into the 2s.

A cold wet one ahead. Winds are going to go more westerly again as the day goes on ahead of one more trough about this time tomorrow.