The Weather Guy – Back to Back to Back… It’s a 3 Peat.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday:

Following a dusting of snow across the upper slopes overnight, conditions have really started to get exciting as the initial front nears. Strong pre-frontal northwesterly winds have already gusted up to 113km/h this morning at Thredbo Top Station and have remained gusty throughout the day with damaging wind warning in place issued by the Bureau of Meteorology.

The freezing level dropped at times throughout today, with some great flurries falling to around 1500m where 5-10cm has fallen, with around 3cm of lower quality sleet/snow falling and collecting in the village.

As we’ve seen over the past few weeks, gusty northwesterly winds were here to lend a hand by stripping the main range of it’s snow stock pile and depositing it on the slopes of Thredbo in huge quantities.

Come Wednesday, a second trough associated with the larger scale low pressure system looks to move overhead maintaining snow falls to around 1300-1400m.

The coolest airmass then looks to move over the region on Thursday as the low moves over the Tasman Sea. The majority of the moisture may have fallen by this stage, but we should see a few flurries from the top of the mountain right to the village – a feat we haven’t seen too often this season. This will easily be the coldest day of the week and the best chance of seeing good quality dry snow from top to bottom.

All up, we should pick up around 15cm by the end of the week (60-70% chance), perhaps up to 20cm by Thursday evening if we are lucky, plus all the wind blown snow coming in from the main range.

It’s looking like back to back to back systems… a 3-peat!

This weekend:

In the longer term, it looks as though a high pressure ridge should build into the weekend leading to a few days of nice conditions with the sun even making an appearance. Back to bluebird conditions! Yew!