Well, there was snow on the road into town this morning but otherwise the Tablelands around my neck of the woods has been calm by comparison to the weather around Sydney' environs. The quantity would make northern hemisphere people scoff and descibe is as a light dew that got scraped out of the fridge, but there you go; I gather it was more useful in the ski areas.

To be helpful to our northern hemisphere friends' understanding of the most recent posts above, I'll take the liberty of making a couple of comparisons. Low pressure systems in the southern hemisphere have the winds circulating clockwise (a notion that escaped some northern hemisphere TV programmers not long ago) and those around our high pressure systems circulate anticlockwise.

Our Met Bureau's definition of "blizzard" can be variable, too, depending on where it is applied. At Mawson it was "60 knot winds with visibility less than 6 metres" but even the katabatic (30-odd knots from the SSE, that started at 10pm and stopped at 10 am) would be headline news on mainland Oz, so the blizzards in our current forecasts are unlikely to be more than 30 knots with a fair bit of snow/fog/cloud to reduce visibility to less than 100 metres. Tough enough, in the circumstances.

Cheers, Rowan