This weekend, barely a couple of days after the damaging winds experienced in the south on Thursday, southeast Australia saw another strong frontal system pass over, bringing storms, showers, strong winds and even snow.

As the front was poised over the southeast late on Friday, winds were expected to be the most damaging feature of this system, especially in elevated areas. This was confirmed as, in the early hours of Saturday morning, Thredbo Top Station and Neptune Island recorded gusts of 117km/h and 102km/h respectively.

Severe thunderstorms also developed during the day on Saturday, which only heightened the damaging effects of the winds, bringing an 89km/h gust at Minlaton Ap just after midday. The thunderstorms also poured some heavy rain over the region, especially in parts of Victoria. Pound Creek saw 24mm while quite a few surrounding locations observed a healthy 15-20mm of rain.

Associated with this front was a cold airmass, which prevented the continuation of warm weather for more northern parts of NSW. Sydney peaked at 27 degrees on Saturday, with similar temperatures in the days leading up to the weekend, before the front arrived. In more southern areas temperatures were already much cooler and so the effect of the cold airmass was not as large. However, this front did produce some snow for the alpine areas last night and early this morning.

Despite clearer skies from a high, most of the southeast should wake up to chilly mornings over the next coming days thanks to the lingering cold airmass. The next front impacting the southeast should occur about midway through next week.