A low pressure system will move over the Western Australia and South Australia border later this week, pushing a cold front over Tasmania and Australia’s south-east this weekend.
South Australia will cop a chilly weekend, with just 6C expected in Adelaide on Saturday and Sunday.Victoria, Tasmania and southern NSW will be hit on the weekend with damaging winds, rain, hail and blizzards.
It is expected to snow down to 300 metres across Tasmania, including some suburbs in Hobart, 400 metres in Victoria and 500 metres in Southern NSW.
There will be massive snow dumps in the Victorian Alps with blizzard conditions.
Up to five centimetres of snow could fall in Ballarat, about 100 kilometres from Melbourne, and 10 centimetres in the Otways near Geelong, south-west of Melbourne.
Massive snow dumps are forecast on the NSW Snowy Mountains, with 100 centimetres expected between Sunday and Thursday.
Between 80 and 100 centimetres will fall on the Victorian Snowy Mountains.
Cradle Valley in Tasmania will cop between 50 and 70 centimetres.
Queensland will remain dry.
Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Richard Carlyon told news.com.au Victoria would experience its coldest snap of the year this week.
Currently snow is down to 800 metres but will reduce to 300 metres tonight as the cold snap moves up from the south-west.
Source: Weather forecast: Coldest snap of the year to hit Victoria, Tasmania, NSW
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