A rapidly deepening low-pressure system in the Tasman Sea will track towards the coast this weekend, the precursor to a bout of severe winter weather across eastern Australia.
A low-pressure system is forecast to bring severe weather across eastern Australia, including gale force winds, heavy rain, huge surf and possibly Alpine blizzards.Parts of the NSW ranges could see their first snow in two years.
The system's centre will track south on Saturday around 600 kilometres off the NSW coast, then begin a clockwise loop from Sunday, bringing the storm within striking distance of the east coast. As with wind, the intensity of rain also depends on the low's path – with a close swipe of the coast bringing up to 150 millimetres to Gippsland Victoria and eastern Tasmania .
With the blast of polar air coinciding with the middle of winter, temperatures should be comfortably cold enough for snowfalls across the Alps, however a few non-alpine areas are also likely to see snow this week. Despite cold temperatures, this winter has produced only a handful of light to moderate snowfalls, mostly on only the higher slopes.Snowy Hydro's latest measurement of the snow depth at Deep Creek, which sits at 1,620m, was 0cm — nearly 50cm below average, and the first time in 23 years no snow was observed in the second week of July.
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