Even Australia's major cold snap this week may not be enough for the city to improve on its lousy record when it comes to seeing snowflakes.
Snow chasers flocking to the Queensland-NSW border this week may not think of Brisbane as a possible snow-spotting location, and save for just a few occasions in the past 100 years they've been right.The city isn't likely to see snow this cold snap, but the border region mightThe Bureau of Meteorology has only three official records of snow in Brisbane: June 1927, June 1932 , and September 1958 Light falls of snow were reported several times through the years following.
"The very suggestion that snow has fallen in Brisbane is enough to raise an incredulous smile on the face of the most sedate, yet there are people who assert that they saw snowflakes fall in the city yesterday. "The 'downpour' lasted for only a few seconds and the flakes were so delicate that a sharp eye was required to identify them, but undoubtedly they were snow."Listen
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