Sydney, Melbourne: Snow, Rain + 10c degree drop: Icy Antarctic cold front set to hammer Eastern Australia

A severe cold front moving across south will bring more snow, rain and overnight temperature drops of more than 10 degrees on Tuesday.

On Thursday, more than five centimetres of snow fell in the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales and temperatures plummeted to -6C.

There has been little relief from the chill, with a further centimetre expected to dust alpine areas, including the Victorian Alps, on Tuesday.

Sydneysiders will also be unable to escape the cold front and will wake up to a very chilly May morning on Wednesday, with temperatures expected to drop 6C overnight.

In Hobart, the mercury is expected to plummet to under 10C in less than 24 hours with a drop of 10 degrees expected on Monday.

‘The cold front should really start dropping significantly in Melbourne on Tuesday,’ Senior Meterologst at Weatherzone, Jacob Cronje, told Daily Mail Australia.

‘By early morning on Thursday it should be quite cold over south eastern Australia’.

Alpine areas are expected to get a ‘light dusting’ of snow mixed with rain on Monday as the icy cold front moves across.

‘It isn’t a dramatic amount of snow,’ Mr Cronje said. ‘Probably one centimetre’.

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