Australia blanketed in biggest snowfall since mid-80s
August 04, 2025 – Several towns in eastern Australia were blanketed with their thickest layer of snow in decades as wild weather swept the area this weekend.
Cars, roofs and gardens were completely white as a cold air front dropped as much as 16in (40cm) of snow on parts of northern New South Wales on Saturday, the most since the mid-1980s, said Miriam Bradbury, a meteorologist at Australia’s weather bureau.
Snow also settled in areas of the neighbouring state of Queensland for the first time in 10 years, she said.
Ms Bradbury said climate change has made Australia’s weather more volatile in recent years but that this sort of event had occurred several times in the historical record.
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David
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Perhaps there’s still water falling from Hunga Tonga.
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Tom
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Sometimes snow happens in winter just like heat happens in summer. There is not nearly enough long, long term data to know what the extremes really might be.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi David, Tom and any other PSI Readers,
“Ms Bradbury said climate change has made Australia’s weather more volatile in recent years but that this sort of event had occurred several times in the historical record.”
Ms Bradbury can state this and not state, to be consistent, there must have been climate change several times in these historical pastimes.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Editor,
My posted comments have disappeared.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Editor,
A test.
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sunsettommy
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What happened?
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Anapat
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Love photo of kangaroo in the snow.
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VOWG
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Winter in Auzziland and snow who’d a thunk it.
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