Sam Brown, 11 Jul 2014, 4:16 AM UTC
Snow for the end of the school holidays
Great snow conditions this weekend before heading back to school.
As the school holidays draw to a close, a cold front is shaping up to bring further heavy snow showers to the Australian Alps.
If you are heading to the snow for the final weekend of the holidays, your timing couldn't be better as a cold front will deliver up to 30 centimetres of fresh powder this weekend. Saturday is looking to be the most significant day of snowfall as a cold front distributes 20 centimetres of snow across the Alps falling as low as 1000 metres.
This however is not the only good news.
In the wake of this front, a high pressure ridge will promptly build allowing skies to clear and bluebird conditions to ensue on Sunday and Monday. Fortunately, overnight temperatures will also continue to be cool preventing the fresh snow from becoming slushy or slow.
For those of you who don't have school commitments, a second stronger front should move over southeastern parts of the nation in the latter part of next week, bringing the potential of more than 30 centimetres on Thursday and Friday. Moisture distributed across the ranges by this front should fall as snow above 1100 metres on both days.
For a detailed 14 day snow forecast, check http://www.weatherzone.com.au/snow/ for more information.
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