{"id":393046,"date":"2025-08-05T13:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=393046"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:46:33","slug":"australia-blanketed-in-biggest-snowfall-since-mid-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=393046","title":{"rendered":"Australia blanketed in biggest snowfall since mid-80s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New South Wales and Queensland had heaviest snow for decades as 16in dropped in some areas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several towns in eastern\u00a0Australia<\/a>\u00a0were blanketed with their thickest layer of\u00a0snow<\/a>\u00a0in decades as wild weather swept the area over the weekend. The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cars, roofs and gardens were completely white as a cold air front dropped as much as 16in (40cm) of snow on parts of northern New South Wales<\/a> on Saturday, the most since the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snow also settled in areas of the neighbouring state of Queensland<\/a> for the first time in ten years, Miriam Bradbury, a meteorologist at Australia\u2019s weather bureau, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The snow, combined with heavy rain and thunderstorms, has led to more than 1,455 incidents, according to the New South Wales State Emergency Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands of homes are expected to remain without power for another 24 hours, while mobile phone outages have been widely reported across the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 200 vehicles were stranded on roads due to snow, storms had damaged buildings, and major flood warnings were issued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rain started to ease on Sunday, but parts of New England in New South Wales were told to evacuate ahead of major flooding expected on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Bradbury said\u00a0climate change<\/a>\u00a0has made\u00a0Australia\u2019s weather more volatile<\/a>\u00a0in recent years, but that this sort of event had only occurred several times in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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