Australian Weather

A cold front crossing the southeast of the country on Monday has delivered strong winds, showers and Alpine snow to TAS, VIC and southern NSW. Wind gusts of up to 119km/hr were recorded at Thredbo Top Station (NSW), Hogan Island (VIC) and Cape Grim (TAS) on Monday morning. Winds remained strong and sometimes gusty but eased relative to the force of the winds experienced on Sunday at some locations. The top rainfall total in the 24 hours to 9am was 60mm at Mt Victoria (TAS). Since then to 5pm, 17mm has fallen at Mt Read (TAS). Falls Creek, Mt Buller and Thredbo faired the best across the snow resorts. Small hail was reported across southern VIC with the assistance with an upper trough. On Tuesday, a high will ridge in from the west easing winds and clearing any remaining showers from the southeast, mainly eastern VIC and western TAS.