People are skiing where they’ve never skied before as an unseasonal surge of winter weather batters the south east bringing rain, hail and storms.
“We have snow here in western Victoria in places that never or rarely have snow,” said one Victorian on Twitter.
A cold air mass brewed up from the Great Australian Bight on Thursday night and is now passing through Victoria and southern New South Wales.
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