Author: The Frog

Thredbo, Australia’s premier ski resort, is excited to welcome back the One Hit Wonder Mountain Festival, where the world’s best free skiers will go head to head over four massive days.

Sunshine, champagne showers and Top to Bottom racing Thousands of skiers and snowboarders hit the slopes for the G.H Mumm

  July 28 2016 Snowstorm blankets powder on Queenstown ski fields The ‘pow pow’ is here – skiers and snowboarders

The snow started falling Friday night and has hardly let up. The last front arrived overnight with another 5-20cm in the resorts meaning around 40-85cm of new snow. Light snow should start to ease today. Here is a collection of photo’s of the recent snowfalls

  Queenstown snow-lovers and happy holidaymakers have been treated to a whiter-than-white snow day at the resort town’s ski fields.

Masses of young skiers and boarders joined Gold Medallist Torah Bright for a fun day at the Torah Bright Mini Shred in Thredbo over the weekend, where they learnt new tricks and made plenty of new friends.

The rollercoaster ride of Season 2016 in Australia hits a low point this week after the polar blast and dump of snow we saw in the mountains last week. Weekend sunshine and light winds saw the best conditions of the season over the weekend as thousands headed to the NSW and Victorian resorts. Things hit a snag this week but it won’t take long for things to turn positive. More snow coming this weekend….

I can see clearly now the storm has gone. We have a great cover of snow for mid July, probably a little better than expected earlier in the season. The big question now is when is the next one coming? What kind of weather do we have install for the mountains resorts over the next month?

Mother Nature’s turned on the snow guns from heaven for Coronet Peak and The Remarkables ski areas – dumping snow overnight and throughout today (Thursday July 14) with plenty more to come in the next 24 hours.

The welcome return to winter has seen Coronet Peak receive 10cm of snow overnight and counting, and a good 12cm to 16cm up at The Remarkables.

Tomorrow will see a polar blast freeze the South East of Australia. It should start tomorrow morning with snow falling in the South Australian highlands by late morning. Not something you see very much at all.

The snowy mountains resorts will see light snow starting early on Tuesday with snowfalls above 1200m increasing during the day and lowering as the day progresses down to around 600m overnight. Winds will be gale force and above about the peaks with blizzard conditions likely.