snow in Australia

[jow104]

SNOW IN AUSTRALIA

Watching a documentary on British TV the other evening it was shewing heavy snow falls in OZ.
Where do you get this snow and what severity ?

[Grunt]

We've got the Great Dividing Range which runs the almost all the way down the east coast of Australia and around the corner in Victoria. Mt. Kosciusko is the highest peak at a fairly pitiful 2200 metres (7300 feet). The southern part of the Great Dividing Range will get snow during our winter. This winter has been a good one for snow and there is over a metre of snow at the resorts in Victoria.

[jow104]

Very nice, you aussies have got everything ;)

[Gumby]

Very nice, you aussies have got everything ;)

And it's only 2.5 hours from Melbourne...........Surf in the summer, skiiing in winter, you're right John, we have it all.

Take a look at www.mtbuller.com.au

:D :eek: :cool:

[Rocker]

Snow, no. Frost, no. But we can do hail in Qld :)

Rocker

[jow104]

Super pictures.

Can anybody please arrange residence for me?

[Robert WA]

Hail in Albany WA.
The building is the surf club premises at Middleton Beach. I didn't go surfing that day.

[Grunt]

Can I Come

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Super pictures.

Can anybody please arrange residence for me?

Don't know about residence but come on down for a holiday. Plenty of us here would love to show you around.

[journeyman Mick]

I believe it's pretty easy to get residence if you're young and have a trade, otherwise you just need big bags of money. ;)
Mick

[Barry_White]

Hi Woody

I live in the north of New South Wales up on the New England Tablelands between the cities of Tamworth and Armidale.

I have attached a few photos of the snow we had in July 1984. It covered the tableland right up to the Queensland border that year, in fact it stretched right up the Great dividing range from Victoria to Queensland.

It has snowed here 3 times so far this year and has snowed yesterday not far from here east of Tamworth. In the summer it gets up to 42 degrees C here.

[jow104]

Message to Grunt,

Please don't tempt us (janet & John ) telephoned the local travel agent just now but I must have sounded too eager, price was over £700 each, and when we came over in January this year it was under £400 each. Anyway I left my telephone number with them and you never know they might ring back. They had to ring back three times last time, so I'm getting experienced.
To BarryW
We travelled that road in January this year over 40 it was. Dubbo to Armidale. Next day Armidale to Lismore via tentafield and Casino. I could imagine snow between Tent & Casino

John

[oges]

200+ years ago it was quite easy to get residence here :D

[jow104]

My family got left behind.

They got off the boat to do a job and when they returned the ship had sailed without them :) :)

[jow104]

MESSAGE TO GRUNT

Travel agents havent obliged they say its the peak holiday season (for us) but if we may I'll have another go in November if you are agreeable.
John

[Grunt]

Absolutely.

[Eastie]

SNOW IN AUSTRALIA

Watching a documentary on British TV the other evening it was shewing heavy snow falls in OZ.
Where do you get this snow and what severity ?
At the back fence there was about 50cm on the weekend, real ****** nice conditions to be out mending fence line for the last four days. Thats on the plains at about 1050m above sea level, beyond there it gets steeper and deeper. Up on the peaks there's about 2-2.1m at the moment, which should last for another month yet before the melt.

[Tristan Croll]

A little something to whet your appetite... Taken on Mt Bogong three weekends ago, about an hour after sunrise.

[HappyHammer]

Far too cold for me I came to Australia for the Sun and beaches, although must admit have been down to the snow just to make sure it really snowed in Aus.

Jow, what do you do for a crust it might be easier than you think...

HH.

[jow104]

To Hammerxxxxxxx

Now retired , but I reckon I did everything but earnt nothing.

[bitingmidge]

Been alive since halfway through the last century, and have never seen snow in Australia. I think all the above photos are fakes.

The attached photo was taken at 9.00am yesterday at Double Island Point. Some of the guys still have jumpers on because there is still a chill in the air (about 22°c at the time) about half the surfers had wetsuits with the water temperature at just 20° (bbrrrrrr.)

The white stuff isn't snow.

For those in Melbourne, the blue stuff at the top of the picture is sky.

Cheers!!
:D :D :D

P
We don't just like it,
We love it up here!!

[HappyHammer]

To Hammerxxxxxxx

Now retired , but I reckon I did everything but earnt nothing.
If you've got kids try and convince them to come out here, once the majority of your kids are here they can get you out too.

HH.

[jow104]

I dunno about that, some of the grandchildren are a problem. One of them called me gay the other day because I had my legs crossed,
and she's only 7 years old.

[fxst]

I dunno about that, some of the grandchildren are a problem. One of them called me gay the other day because I had my legs crossed,
and she's only 7 years old.
What do they teach in school there????
Its ok mate you stay there its safer all round ......and it leaves the skips for me to check without competition
anyway it gets hot here at times too
Pete

[gemi_babe]

Been alive since halfway through the last century, and have never seen snow in Australia. I think all the above photos are fakes.

The attached photo was taken at 9.00am yesterday at Double Island Point. Some of the guys still have jumpers on because there is still a chill in the air (about 22°c at the time) about half the surfers had wetsuits with the water temperature at just 20° (bbrrrrrr.)

The white stuff isn't snow.

For those in Melbourne, the blue stuff at the top of the picture is sky.

Cheers!!
:D :D :D

P
We don't just like it,
We love it up here!!
So they still let people at Double island point hey. I have been there. 4wd with the family. Absolutely gorgeous. You lucky bugga!!

[jow104]

Saturday newspapers here in the UK today advertising Qantas fare return to Oz in November £489. So I will most probably get up to my usual trick of telephoning in that month and seeing if there are any empty seats going really cheap.

[AlexS]

Let's know if & when you decide to come. I'm sure you'll find no shortage of woodies happy to catch up with you & show you around.

Cheers

[jow104]

Many thanks all for kind invitations, Janet and I will be pleased to let you know of our plans.

Janet and John

[Tristan Croll]

Of course, some days are better than others... (yes, that is ice in my beard!)

[RETIRED]

Of course, some days are better than others... (yes, that is ice in my beard!)
Gee Whizz I have that look without getting ice in it! :D

[jow104]

We had some rain in Boscastle (Cornwall). Did you see the cars exceeding the speed limit down the high street?

[Rocker]

You could have avoided all that if you had been willing to spend ten pounds on a fare to Oz in the sixties :)

Rocker

[jow104]

Hi Rocker,

I acturally paid £105 single fare to Australia in 1954 on the ss.Orsova to Perth but cashed in the ticket about 10 days before sailing. I was starting to feel homesick. I refused the £10 offer at the time because there was a penalty if the immigrant did not stay a certain length of time.
Back in the 19th century it was free of course but around 10 years was the minimum???

[Sturdee]

I refused the £10 offer at the time because there was a penalty if the immigrant did not stay a certain length of time.
Back in the 19th century it was free of course but around 10 years was the minimum???

The penalty was a minimum of a 2 year stay before you could leave the cxountry.


Peter.

[aussieglen]

I lived until I was 23 in your neighbouring town of Torquay emigrating in 1958. I dearly love my adopted country and would never leave Brisbane now.

You say that we have everything here in Oz and I agree the we have much, but there are things which can never be in Oz that I miss terribly even after all these years - such as; an English Christmas, the cosy country pubs; the Cotswold and Devon villages; the dry-stone walls and high hedges in country lanes; the public footpaths across green fields and the ever-flowing streams; Devonshire Clotted cream; the softer sunlight; the long evenings; the beautiful Stately Homes, and Capability Brown gardens; Country mansions, castles and bridges; the harbours of Brixham, Clovelly and other fishing villages, and so on that I love to visit and savour on my infrequent holidays there. But I'm always glad to return to the warm climate and the feeling of freedom in Oz.

If you ever get to Brisbane on your travels look me up and we’ll have an icy cold beer.

Peter.

[jow104]

Thanks Peter.

By the way is there something wrong with your messaging?

[aussieglen]

Yeeh, its the aliens again - I'll sent them a rocket!

[Iain]

I miss a lot from the UK too, BIrmingham just before we went to live in Switzerland, 2 years then Aus in 1966.
Freezing cold winters so cold that your ears stung, playing school soccer in the snow, smog so thick you could barely see 20 feet in front of you, lots of fatalities on the road in winter due to black ice, arrogant shop stewards calling strike action at the drop of a hat, pious public servants (a bit like here really), limited entry to tertiary education etc etc.
Sorry, would find it hard to go back to that.

[Rocker]

Aussieglen,

Your lyrical enumeration of the unique delights of of the English countryside had me looking up John of Gaunt's speech in Richard II, and humming "English country garden". I spent my childhood about 6 miles from Torquay in the village of Little Hempston. However, it wasn't long before I remembered the superior delights of living in Queensland, and the drawbacks to living in England - the incessant rain, the ridiculously high cost of living, and the overcrowding. So, like you, I am very happy to be a citizen of this [somewhat larger] precious stone set in the silver sea.

Rocker

[jow104]

Just had some pictures sent me of snow in Sydney. Please mail me if you need any help or advice.http://homepages.tesco.net/john.jt/animationjack.gif

[Barry_White]

What compliments of Photoshop. Maybe when hell freezes over. Surely not Sydney Australia.

[AlexS]

I do recall seeing snow fall in Sydney nearly 20 years ago, but it melted as soon as it hit the ground. The pics Jow saw were probably of our hailstorm last weekend.

[jow104]

To Alexs

Are you sure? Its looks as good as snow to me, or do you work for the Sydney Tourist Office (joke honestly)
Last week you may recall I offered Sydney rain, and look what they got.

[HappyHammer]

I miss a lot from the UK too, BIrmingham just before we went to live in Switzerland, 2 years then Aus in 1966.
Freezing cold winters so cold that your ears stung, playing school soccer in the snow, smog so thick you could barely see 20 feet in front of you, lots of fatalities on the road in winter due to black ice, arrogant shop stewards calling strike action at the drop of a hat, pious public servants (a bit like here really), limited entry to tertiary education etc etc.
Sorry, would find it hard to go back to that.
:eek: I can't imagine anyone wanting to go back to Birmingham for any reason having managed to escape two feet away let alone several thousand miles it's the most miserable place in Britain with Leeds being a close second..

I'd never go back either, I love Aus.:D

HH.

[HappyHammer]

To Alexs

Are you sure? Its looks as good as snow to me, or do you work for the Sydney Tourist Office (joke honestly)
Last week you may recall I offered Sydney rain, and look what they got.
That looks like Hail to me Jow.

[craigb]

That looks like Hail to me Jow.

Yep. Last Sunday we had a mother of a hail storm. Fortunately the stones were'nt big enough to damage anything (like your car) but for a couple of houirs we had a "carpet of white" :)