Picture of the Day: A Snowy Summer Down Under

Here is a picture of summer time in Australia:

Australians usually can only dream of a white Christmas, but not this year. A freak weather pattern has brought significant snowfall to the eastern states of New South Wales and Victoria (pictured, Mount Hotham), RedOrbit reports.

Various locations reported up to 4 inches of snow, though The Telegraph of London reported as much as 11 inches in parts of New South Wales.

“It’s white, everything is white,” Michelle Lovius, general manager of the Kosciuszko Chalet Hotel at Charlotte Pass, told the Telegraph.

“First thing this morning everything was just very still, very peaceful and every single thing was just blanketed in a thick cover of white.”  [CNN]

This really isn’t all that unusual because when I lived in Australia there was a couple of summers when it snowed in the mountains.  By the way I recommend checking out my prior pictures of Mt. Hotham, the Mt. Hotham Ski Resort, and the winter weather in the snowfields of northern Victoria.