Blizzard of Oz: Snow transforms Aussie alps, and there’s more to come

Four days of snow have transformed Australia's alps into white capped wonders, and there is more fresh powder on the way.

A series of cold fronts and low pressure systems have caused snw to fall in the mountains each day since Thursday.

Around 40-80cm of new natural snow were recorded across the main ski resorts in Victoria and New South Wales at 9am today, although some areas in the alps are likely to have seen higher totals than this.

The rain gauge at Perisher recorded 78mm of precipitation between Friday and this morning. As temperatures were below freezing the whole time, this roughly equates to 78cm of natural snow.

The most recent cold front in the series produced the heaviest snow of this event.

Some areas in the alps picked up around half a metre of natural snow during the 24 hours to 9am today, with snow rates approaching 5cm per hour at times.

This latest front has also dragged a pool of particularly cold air into New South Wales, where it started producing snow down to about 1200m above sea level on the state's Central Tablelands this morning.

Snow could fall to about 1000m above sea level in the region later today or tonight.

The weekend's snow was also accompanied by gale force winds, which lead to blizzards at times.

Thredbo Top Station recorded a wind gust of 133km/h on Saturday night, which was its strongest gust in over a year.

Another 10-20cm of natural snow will fall today before a high pressure ridge brings drier and calmer weather to the snow-covered alps from tomorrow.

Tomorrow and Wednesday will be perfect days to hit the slopes.

Closer to the city, and hail and thunder are on the horizon today in Melbourne, after winds clocked 39km/hr about 8.30am today.

The city will reach a top of just 12 degrees before conditions clear on Wednesday and Thursday as winds then begin to pick back up.

In Sydney, winds of nearly 70km/hr were recorded at the airport just before 1pm.

Despite the mercury currently hovering around 17C, the wind chill is making it feel almost 10C colder.

Further south, Adelaide is enjoying day of reprieve after a wild weekend of wind and rain. The city will reach 16 degrees.

Localised flooding is still possible for parts of the Adelaide Hills, with a warning for the Upper Onkaparinga River.

With WeatherZone