Residents of Colac and its inhabitants awoke and discovered that their garden was covered in snow as the temperature dropped to 0 degrees.
A summer festival hot spot has a winter snowy wonderland and portions of Geelong have been covered in hail while the highest blast of ferocious ice in years hit the region on Tuesday.
The Lorne Falls Festival site is ideally positioned for ratting, as a bloodless front filled with Antarctic air has delivered several centimetres of snow, experienced across the Otways, Ballarat and even around Colac at less than 150 m altitude.
Geelong did not skimp at least through the appearance of snow, when hail bleached the lawn in the northern suburbs.
Some of the hails extended to the tops of You Yang, combined with a snow dust, for witnesses.
Nick Thomas reported a fall of “dry, dusty snow” at 12:30 p.m.
Lindsay Smail, owner of the Geelong Weather Service, said the last time heavy snowfall was documented in You Yangs in 1986, when Geelong’s suburbs were also dusted off.
After predictions of low snow levels, Clinton Street ventured from Charlemont and just south of Winchelsea around Bambra it started snowing.
When he arrived at the falls festival around nine o’clock in the morning with the young Summer and Koby, another snow shower crowned the experience.
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It’s the first time the young people have seen snow.
“Right now it’s snowing. Mom, if you don’t know us, take a look at it,” Summer said as she captured a video from the passenger seat.
Tilda Paton, 6, enjoying the snow at Beech Forrest.
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The boys from Colac Logan Plant, Riley Paton and Ethan plant the snow in Beech Forrest.
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Emily Box, 16, enjoys the snow at Beech Forrest.
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enjoying the snow at Beech Forrest.
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Mr Street quipped he should have grabbed a snowboard after watching the tobogganing action among the handful of families at the Falls site.
“It’s unbelievable, my friend. Everywhere in the ferns and everything, it’s amazing.
“We move on to the site of the Array Falls … and it was open and it was great, the other people out there with slides and everything.
“There were probably 20 or 30 of us there, then the snow fell and it was like a winter paradise.”
“Then we went down to Lorne and (the snow) stopped right at the end there.
Nighttime temperatures were the best for the phenomenon, rising around 0 on the surface when humidity invaded the domain since Monday night.
Temperatures dropped to 0.1 degrees Celsius around 7 a.m. in the bush. Gellibrand weather station in Colac, while Geelong sank to 2.8 degrees Celsius, Avalon 2.7 degrees Celsius and the entrance of Airey 2.2 degrees Celsius: the bloodless wind felt -3.1 degrees Celsius in Geelong at 8 am, -4.9 degrees C in Aireys and -9.9C to Colac in the early hours of the morning.
The Otways and outside Colac experienced similar snowfalls in 2017, however, some citizens of Colac said on social media that they could not suffer such a giant spill since the mid-1990s.
Tom Delamotte, a forecaster at the Bureau of Meteorology, said it was “pretty rare (having snow) up to 150m above sea level,” anywhere up to three hundred yards would expect snow on average once a year.
Delamotte said there was more snow imaginable for the Otways vanquished on Tuesday night and in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but only the highest ridges with the point do not deserve to fall below six hundred m.
In Geelong, the citizens of Corio and Lovely Banks observed a hailstorm burying roads, entrances and lawns.
Parts of Geelong as a winter wonderland on Tuesday morning as they hail white and deep streets and lawns.
Readers sent photos of the northern suburbs of Geelong with the stunning view.
This occurs when Colac’s early risers awoke with a layer of snow when temperatures dropped to 0.1 degrees Celsius around 7 a.m. this morning.
Snow fell to 150 m around much of the southwest, adding Colac, the Otways and Ballarat.
Ferny Creek at Melbourne’s Dandenong Ranges fell to -1C on Tuesday morning.
Meteorology Bureau forecaster Tom Delamotte said an icy explosion in South Australia moved through the region early this morning, snowy.
“It’s quite a bit of snow up to 150 m above sea level, we have snow about three hundred m once a year,” Delamotte said.
Residents said on Twitter that they last remembered seeing snow in the Colac in the mid-1990s.
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Delamotte said the citizens of Colac deserve not to expect to see more snow on the day, but the Otways and Ballarat deserve to continue to see gentle snowfall.
Geelong recorded a low of 2.8C this morning, while Airey’s Inlet recorded 2.2C.
Winter in the Otways ?
At 8:30 a.m., it was 3.1 degrees Celsius in Geelong, however, the temperature seemed much cooler: 2.3 degrees Celsius.
Geelong is expected to succeed in the 11C most sensitive today.
Delamotte said the snow is not expected to fall the day in the southwest on Wednesday.
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