Mt Buller’s snow depth has reached 76 centimetres, the most for a Queen’s Birthday weekend since records began 44 years ago. It was so deep on Saturday that staff were digging chair lifts out of the snow
Almost a metre of snow has been dumped on Mt Buller’s ski fields, the deepest snow level ever recorded for a Queen’s Birthday long weekend.
.“The main problem [on Saturday] was digging things out; there’s almost too much snow,” said Terry Lyons, who has spent every ski season on the mountain for the past 44 years.When man-made snow is added in, the snow reaches an average depth of 84 centimetres. Snow depths have reached 92 centimetres at Falls Creek and 82 centimetres at Mt Hotham.brought slightly more snow in early June that year, records show.
Senior meteorologist Jackson Browne said a burst of cold air was making its way from the Southern Ocean up across the state and west towards the Tasman Sea.“It’s looking to be a bumper weekend,” Browne said.
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