| NEW SOUTH WALES | |||
| Snow forecast | 5 Days | 10 Days | 15 Days |
| Perisher | 1-6cm | 1-7cm | 1-7cm |
| Thredbo | 1-6cm | 1-7cm | 1-7cm |
| Charlotte Pass | 1-6cm | 1-7cm | 1-7cm |
| Selwyn | 0-1cm | 0-1cm | 0-1cm |
| VICTORIA | |||
| Snow forecast | 5 Days | 10 Days | 15 Days |
| Falls Creek | 0-6cm | 0-8cm | 0-8cm |
| Mt Hotham | 0-6cm | 0-8cm | 0-8cm |
| Mt Buller | 0-3cm | 0-5cm | 0-5cm |
| Mt Baw Baw | 0-4cm | 0-7cm | 0-7cm |
Please note: the 10-15 day readings are more likely to change due to the longer range timeframe.
Well it’s not good news in the mountains with over 60mm of rain falling in Perisher since yesterday. Unfortunately this has damaged the thin cover to an extent that Perisher made the call yesterday to close operations for the season. It was hoped that they could limp through to Sunday (just a week short of the normal official closing long weekend) but it just wasn’t possible.
It was a season that started with very little natural snow in June and some good snowfalls from the second week of July through to the end of July where we actually reached our seasons peak snow depth of 124cm Spencers Creek on July 30.
June and July had a long run of very cold nights and below average temps. The snow guns were firing, and we broke snowmaking records for a season, even before we hit August.
Things were looking good at the start of August and hopes were high for a good season. Around the second week temps started to increase and then mid-month we saw warm temps along with an unprecedented run of three weeks of very strong winds that reached around 100km/h about the peaks, with many lifts placed on hold for safety. This hair dryer affect pretty much killed the season as the snow cover melted rapidly and pretty much left us with the only runs open being ones that had had snowmaking earlier in the season.
Resort operations crews once again did an outstanding job to keep things going as long as they did.
Season 2024 will go down as once of the worse ones. Season 2023’s snow depth was only 7cm more, so it’s been two years of very ordinary snow. These depths are not the worst recorded, with 2006 only reaching 85cm, 1982-91cm and 1993 only got to 112cm. This shows that we have had bad seasons before and come back. For those that think it’s all over and we will never see deep snow again, remember that 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022 all reached well over 2m in snow depth at Spencer's Creek and 2021 was just below 2m.
It's time for a break (and some painting) and we look forward to a much better Season 2025 where Perisher will open their brand new 6 seater chair on Mt Perisher.
Thanks to everyone who has visited Snowatch, the only snow forecasting site that doesn't spit out computer generated forecasts using algorithms, it's all done manually every day by a single human. So all the text you see, all the weather icon images and wind strengths are typed and manually selected every morning since May 1st til now.
Have a great off season, hopefully many can get some decent snow overseas in the off season.
Til next year.
Pete 'The Frog' Taylor
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If publishing any of the above forecast outlook please quote Snowatch.com.au as the source.
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