Winter Blast Hits Victoria

 Another blast of cold air has rolled through Victoria again:

IT WAS cold, so very cold. Then came the rain, the wind and in some parts of the state, the snow.

Melbourne yesterday recorded its coldest day in nine years. The temperature hovered around six degrees for most of the afternoon, dipping to 5.4 degrees at 6pm. The top was 9.2 degrees at 9.48am, well below the July average top of 13.7 degrees.

Weather bureau forecaster Dean Stewart said a cold front hit Melbourne around the morning peak hour, bringing hours of rain and blasts of cold Antarctic air in its wake. The previous coldest maximum Melbourne temperature came on July 9, 1998, with a top of 8.9 degrees.   […]

Snow and ice forced VicRoads to close roads in Ballan, Daylesford, Trentham, Woodend and Mt Macedon for hours due to snow and ice.

The above picture is from the city of Wooden just north of Melbourne and just down the road from where I live.  I didn’t get any snow at my house but my entire lawn was completely iced over and I could see snow caps on some the nearby hills. 

The Herald-Sun has a good gallery of reader’s pictures they sent in of the snow.  Here are a few of the better ones:

A koala trying to keep warm on Mt. Macedon.

Snow falls in Ballarat.

A kid plays in the snow in Daylesford.

Does all this snow answer this idiot’s question yet?