Places across Victoria including Ballarat and Lismore reported beautiful flurries of snow on Friday morning.
After a morning bout of snow across Victoria's central and south-east districts, there could be snowy mountaintops to the north and west of Melbourne on the way this afternoon.
Melbourne's dams are benefiting from the spring rain, with Melbourne Water storage now at 72.2 per cent full, the first time to hit that level since December 2016. The water storage nudged over 70 per cent in late August this year, for the first time since October 2017. Melbourne Water's largest dam, the Thomson Dam in West Gippsland, received more than 11 millimetres of rain on Friday morning and is now 69.6 per cent full.Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Keris Arndt said that snow had been sighted across Victoria's south-west, including Lake Bolac, as well as in the Macedon Ranges and in Ballarat.
"We could see more snow about the hills to the north and east as showers go through. Places like Mount Macedon and peaks like Mount Dandenong could potentially see some flurries," Mr Arndt said.
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