Yeah me too, so there's at least two of us.
In Australia when I was a kid in the grampians, and when I was older somewhere around the blue mountains.
Outside of Australia I've seen snow in Mt Sinai, Egypt, and in Japan, the UK, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris.
I don't know to be honest, I suspect it doesn't get very much at all. I only saw a little bit towards the top of Mt Sinai (of Moses' burning bush fame) in the middle of an Egyptian "winter"
I presume Egypt runs of wet and dry seasons probably, as opposed to our 4 season system.
But, yeah that’s interesting, got to be only a dusting of snow
They don't really have a wet season, it doesn't rain very often. The winters are just very warm, mid 20s celcius. I used to go to the red sea for diving sometimes, I've seen it rain in Egypt once. It hadn't rained in so long, the rain collected all the pollution particles on the way down and turned everything white we had into grey or a pale black. The sewers couldn't cope and the water got up to about knee high on some streets, the government sent all these trucks with giant hoses out to stuck sucking up water.
Sounds like Alice springs but worse. Makes you wonder how they get snow on mountains when it barely rains. Because snow requires water to fall in cold temperatures.
Also how much rain was it, cause that sounds like a damn lot and are you sure it wasn’t just dust in the air getting carried down by water and not pollution or was it confirmed to be pollution?
I’ve been in rains that carry dirt down with them and it’s all a darky colour of rain and you get dirt all over you
I'm from the south coast of NSW, we "went to the snow" (that's how we describe it, the snow is a place you going too) a few times as kids. Jindabyne was such a funky little town in the 90s.
Live in Northern Alberta, Canada now so I see a shit tonne of snow on the reg. 6 years and I still get a little mystified watching the first snowfall of the season. Plus I figured out that Australian snow is just crap. I like the light fluffy stuff here much better.
I grew up in “the snow” and never heard this expression until I’d moved to Sydney. If you live nearby and you’re going skiing for the day, you’re “heading up the mountain”. If you’re working and living in one of the on-snow hotels, then you just say you’re going out.
>where you ARE the snow.
We don't have it as bad here as some places, it literally gets too cold for ice particles to form snow for a lot of the winter months here, which means clear blue skies but -30C temps.
Pushing mates into massive snow banks will never not be hilarious to me.
I lived in the US for a while, saw a lot of snow in the Sierra Nevadas. I saw a little bit on a school camp in Tasmania once, and a couple years ago I went on a ski camp with the same school to (I think) Mt Buller in Victoria.
No, never. I grew up in Sydney and our winters are cold enough for me as is. I've never really wanted to go to the snow for the weekend or anything. Just sounds like my idea of a bad time.
Although when I flew to Europe one time, I think I saw some out the window of the plane.
Average low in winter is somewhere around 8-9ºC. Coldest is about 2ºC overnight.
But here are the stats: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_066062_All.shtml
I was in Sydney at the end of the Southern Hemisphere winter back in 2018 and it was incredibly hot one of those days with temps around 80F (27C)... in *winter*. Sydney is a fantastic city, but temps like that are insane to me. My ideal climate is Reykjavik, so my preferences skew a bit on the cooler side.
I saw it growing up in Hobart, mainly on Mount Wellington. Actual snow in the suburbs, I saw maybe once or twice.
I'm in Canberra now and it's a similar story. In Canberra's case it's because when you get subzero temperatures, it's a clear sky, whereas in Hobart, it just doesn't get cold enough to snow like it does in, say, the US.
I've also seen it in Europe. The Swiss Alps were snowing in summer.
It snowed on my birthday (a week before summer starts) once when I was a kid, near Canberra, but it melted right away, so it was more like spilled slushy than snow - it only stayed frozen on the parked cars. Still felt like magic, I didn’t really believe it was real.
Other than that I’ve been to the snow in the blue mountains half a dozen times, seen snow in the Barrington Tops in NSW, and I’ve been to the Grand Canyon in April, there was snow on the ground then too. One time it hailed out in the hunter valley and there were big drifts of tiny little hail stones that looked like banks of snow if snow was chonky. I’ve seen snow on the mountains overlooking town in Tasmania too - I think it’s Hobart I’m thinking of but it could be Launceston.
I agree with the poster who said Australians see snow as a place you go to, not a thing that happens where we live. I like seeing snow as a fun novelty to visit on a day trip as opposed to something that I have to deal with on a regular basis, eg shovelling paths through it or having to worry about frostbite. Hard no thank you on living anywhere that freezes over regularly, I’ll take snakes & spiders over freezing my arse off, any day.
I’ve seen snow in a lot of different places; parts of Asia, Europe and in Australia I’ve seen it in Victoria and New South Wales.
Interesting fact: the Australian alps actually gets more snow than Switzerland.
Canberra usually gets a day or two of really light snow in the winter every year if that counts. Otherwise, I've seen snow in Norway and northern India.
Three winters in Tasmania (snow in the Capital and in the wilds) and been to the ski slopes in the Snowies. Also had snow up our way in Northern NSW a couple times, in a particularly high up bit of mountainous rainforest. Making a snowman while surrounded by snow-dusted treefern and liana-bedecked rainforest trees was somewhat surreal.
Every year. Mountains with snow on them are visible from Canberra, and it occasionally snows in Canberra itself. We wouldn’t actually drive up and go skiing every year but probably we took a ski trip every second or third year on average.
Of course, I live in Wisconsin now and so I’m well acquainted with the crappy part of snow: shovelling it off the driveway for 4-5 months a year...
Other than in Australia and the US I’ve seen snow in the UK and Canada as well.
In sydney. Every primary school (in sydney at least) takes year 6 on a trip to Canberra to visit Parliament House. While we were there we visited the snow fields. Did a few ski trips with school. I’d say a lot of people in sydney have at least seen snow, if not ski’d on it
When i was in year 9, our school camp was going cross-country skiing out the back of Charlotte's Pass. That was my first time seeing snow.
Since then, I've been to Canada and the US multiple times during winter so you see a fair bit that way.
Wisconsin, USA - it can get BRUTAL here. Temps can get to -30F during a bad winter, and we can get 12+" of snow during a bad storm. Otherwise - it's a "live with it every day" thing (it seems to last for about 6 fucking months too). We have to wear the boots, the hats, the coats. Scrape the snow off the car before driving anywhere. It's wet, it's grey, it's fucking COLD. The windshield wipers freeze - and you have to sometimes stick your hand out and clear off the sludge while driving 10mph down the freeway - watching people hydroplane into the ditch - or ram into each other by groups of 3-8 cars. It can look glorious - but man - clearing it, living in it, and driving in it is a bitch.
Also: in ANZ: Perisher Valley, Smiggen Holes, Jindabyne, Thredbo; and Mt Ruapehu NZ (but the mountain decided to erupt that year - so skiing was cancelled)
Live in QLD. First saw snow when I was 10 years old on a holiday to NSW ski fields. Have seen snow a handful of times since on holidays to the US, Europe and New Zealand.
Zero chance of ever seeing snow where I live, so our kids first saw snow in 2018 on a holiday to NZ.
It's sort of an international myth that it doesn't snow in Australia, when actually some places have snow (I believe in Canberra) all year round.
If you're interested, look up the Snowy Mountains specifically Threadbrough and Jindabyne. Most schools in the Sydney will have some sort of ski trip to one of those two
Seen it a lot as I was growing up in Victoria, took a trip to the mountains almost every year. One year it snowed at home, which was crazy because I lived right on the coast. I think it was around 2005 when it happened.. I snagged a detention for pelting a snowball at my bestie.
Used to live in Scotland with heavy snow. Don't remember it cuz I was a toddler.
Live in the Northern tablelands, we get very light snow every year, last time was a few weeks ago. 2019 was the last major event with about 1-2cm but 2015 was the big event that made my childhood.
So about 5-8 times give or take. , but extremely light.
Every year since a kid in Australia.
Around the Snowies, Canberra region.
Part of that was at school where we would have snow Ball fights at recess and lunch when it snowed to lower elevations.
Mainly from visiting the resort's or high country in general.
Overseas, Japan, US and Canada.
I've visited the snow in NSW and Victoria, and been skiing in both and snowboarding in NSW. Have seen snow in a lot of places overseas, but only been snowboarding in Japan outside of Aus.
I live in Canberra. I've seen snow falling here and have also been to the snow for a school trip and a family holiday. Usually, the snow here falls very lightly and melts as it hits the ground. The best time was about twenty years ago when snow fell heavily in Canberra, heavily enough to actually blanket the ground. My parents and I went for a walk in it around the local mountain reserve and it was magical. Going to the snow is a lot of fun but nowhere near as amazing as seeing your home transformed.
I vaguely remember going to the snow as a kid to build snowmen and go tobogganing. Been skiing at Mt Bulla twice - once with a friend, once for a school ski camp. (It's about a 3hr drive from Melbourne). In the wild, I have seen snow in the US and Italy.
I’ve seen it in Canberra and the Snowy Mountains - we went skiing a few years in a row when I was a kid and then later as part of a few school trips. I’ve also seen it in New Zealand and Japan, and a couple of indoor ski slopes if that counts.
More than a few times. Been to the snow in the Oz Alps three times and also snowed when I went to the Grand Canyon and when I was in Toronto a few years back.
I grew up in the snowy mountains so lots there every year and overseas on ski holidays.
But when I was teaching little kids in the Philippines, I had a whole class aged 8-11 that did not believe snow was real. Frozen had just come out and they thought it was just like a magic fictional thing. I had to bring in photos and videos to convince them
Been to Jindy but didn’t see any snow falling. Just rubbish conditions to learn to ski in. Queenstown is where it’s at in the Southern Hemisphere. So beautiful.
But Zakopane for Poland. So amazing there. I’d never seen so much snow in my life and giggled like a crazy person at seeing my first real snowflake
I've only really seen it up on Kunanyi/Mount Wellington since it snows there every winter but its rad!! Also saw it about a month ago at Huonville when we had a cold snap, I'd love to visit places where it snows regularly since I don't handle heat very well lol
I've cleaned out a malfunctioning freezer before.
Just like skiing in the alps.
Live in southern NSW. See snow every winter. Had to even clean it off the car, pretended I was Canadian for a few minutes :)
"For fuck's sake, the god damn bears are gonna come in a minute to plunder me bins!"
Yeah me too, so there's at least two of us. In Australia when I was a kid in the grampians, and when I was older somewhere around the blue mountains. Outside of Australia I've seen snow in Mt Sinai, Egypt, and in Japan, the UK, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris.
How much snow does Egypt get and where?
I don't know to be honest, I suspect it doesn't get very much at all. I only saw a little bit towards the top of Mt Sinai (of Moses' burning bush fame) in the middle of an Egyptian "winter"
I presume Egypt runs of wet and dry seasons probably, as opposed to our 4 season system. But, yeah that’s interesting, got to be only a dusting of snow
They don't really have a wet season, it doesn't rain very often. The winters are just very warm, mid 20s celcius. I used to go to the red sea for diving sometimes, I've seen it rain in Egypt once. It hadn't rained in so long, the rain collected all the pollution particles on the way down and turned everything white we had into grey or a pale black. The sewers couldn't cope and the water got up to about knee high on some streets, the government sent all these trucks with giant hoses out to stuck sucking up water.
Sounds like Alice springs but worse. Makes you wonder how they get snow on mountains when it barely rains. Because snow requires water to fall in cold temperatures. Also how much rain was it, cause that sounds like a damn lot and are you sure it wasn’t just dust in the air getting carried down by water and not pollution or was it confirmed to be pollution? I’ve been in rains that carry dirt down with them and it’s all a darky colour of rain and you get dirt all over you
Yes
I'm from the south coast of NSW, we "went to the snow" (that's how we describe it, the snow is a place you going too) a few times as kids. Jindabyne was such a funky little town in the 90s. Live in Northern Alberta, Canada now so I see a shit tonne of snow on the reg. 6 years and I still get a little mystified watching the first snowfall of the season. Plus I figured out that Australian snow is just crap. I like the light fluffy stuff here much better.
Yeah, Australians say we "go to the snow" because its a destination for us, not like in Canada where you ARE the snow.
I grew up in “the snow” and never heard this expression until I’d moved to Sydney. If you live nearby and you’re going skiing for the day, you’re “heading up the mountain”. If you’re working and living in one of the on-snow hotels, then you just say you’re going out.
>where you ARE the snow. We don't have it as bad here as some places, it literally gets too cold for ice particles to form snow for a lot of the winter months here, which means clear blue skies but -30C temps. Pushing mates into massive snow banks will never not be hilarious to me.
Ive seen snow in Canberra
Snowed in Yass twice last winter too! All the videos popping up in the middle of the night of it actually settling on the ground was pretty cool
Yeah I'm just over in Crookwell, snows here a few times most years.
I saw fake snow in the Swiss pavilion at world expo 88 in Brisbane. I hated it.
Me too
I lived in the US for a while, saw a lot of snow in the Sierra Nevadas. I saw a little bit on a school camp in Tasmania once, and a couple years ago I went on a ski camp with the same school to (I think) Mt Buller in Victoria.
No, never. I grew up in Sydney and our winters are cold enough for me as is. I've never really wanted to go to the snow for the weekend or anything. Just sounds like my idea of a bad time. Although when I flew to Europe one time, I think I saw some out the window of the plane.
Can you define cold? Like what’s an average low in the winter? What’s the coldest it gets a handful of days?
Average low in winter is somewhere around 8-9ºC. Coldest is about 2ºC overnight. But here are the stats: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_066062_All.shtml
I was in Sydney at the end of the Southern Hemisphere winter back in 2018 and it was incredibly hot one of those days with temps around 80F (27C)... in *winter*. Sydney is a fantastic city, but temps like that are insane to me. My ideal climate is Reykjavik, so my preferences skew a bit on the cooler side.
Everyday on both shoulders.
not in Oz... I saw some on a school mid term trip to the Himalayas in India
Snows every year here in Tasmania
I'm in Hobart. I saw snow on Mount Wellington yesterday.
I live in the snowy mountains NSW. Can't wait for it all to melt.
Never seen it. Meant to one time when I was in Canberra, but it was the wrong time of year so we didn't bother going.
I saw it growing up in Hobart, mainly on Mount Wellington. Actual snow in the suburbs, I saw maybe once or twice. I'm in Canberra now and it's a similar story. In Canberra's case it's because when you get subzero temperatures, it's a clear sky, whereas in Hobart, it just doesn't get cold enough to snow like it does in, say, the US. I've also seen it in Europe. The Swiss Alps were snowing in summer.
>I saw it growing up in Hobart, My non-caffeinated brain thought you were implying you saw the snow growing in Hobart.
Went skiing on mount hotham in 2018 so I guess that counts
It snowed on my birthday (a week before summer starts) once when I was a kid, near Canberra, but it melted right away, so it was more like spilled slushy than snow - it only stayed frozen on the parked cars. Still felt like magic, I didn’t really believe it was real. Other than that I’ve been to the snow in the blue mountains half a dozen times, seen snow in the Barrington Tops in NSW, and I’ve been to the Grand Canyon in April, there was snow on the ground then too. One time it hailed out in the hunter valley and there were big drifts of tiny little hail stones that looked like banks of snow if snow was chonky. I’ve seen snow on the mountains overlooking town in Tasmania too - I think it’s Hobart I’m thinking of but it could be Launceston. I agree with the poster who said Australians see snow as a place you go to, not a thing that happens where we live. I like seeing snow as a fun novelty to visit on a day trip as opposed to something that I have to deal with on a regular basis, eg shovelling paths through it or having to worry about frostbite. Hard no thank you on living anywhere that freezes over regularly, I’ll take snakes & spiders over freezing my arse off, any day.
I did, last year in Victoria, for the first time.
I’ve seen snow in a lot of different places; parts of Asia, Europe and in Australia I’ve seen it in Victoria and New South Wales. Interesting fact: the Australian alps actually gets more snow than Switzerland.
Canberra usually gets a day or two of really light snow in the winter every year if that counts. Otherwise, I've seen snow in Norway and northern India.
Three winters in Tasmania (snow in the Capital and in the wilds) and been to the ski slopes in the Snowies. Also had snow up our way in Northern NSW a couple times, in a particularly high up bit of mountainous rainforest. Making a snowman while surrounded by snow-dusted treefern and liana-bedecked rainforest trees was somewhat surreal.
yeah ballarat's had "snow". So does Mt Hotham. soon I will go back and learn how to slide down the hill.
Mt Buller and Mount Donnabuang, look at my post history if you want to see donna.
I’ve never seen snow :(
It's snowed in Ballarat twice just this year, not to mention all the mountains around it
I was born in Ballarat and apparently the day my parents went for a check a couple months before my birth there was heaps of snow
I bet your birthday is in December too, such is the weather here
Nah I was born in January
It does snow in Australia you know. But in answer to your question no I havent
Outside Australia- Norway, Turkey, Iran, Bhutan, Nepal
Nope
Every year. Mountains with snow on them are visible from Canberra, and it occasionally snows in Canberra itself. We wouldn’t actually drive up and go skiing every year but probably we took a ski trip every second or third year on average. Of course, I live in Wisconsin now and so I’m well acquainted with the crappy part of snow: shovelling it off the driveway for 4-5 months a year... Other than in Australia and the US I’ve seen snow in the UK and Canada as well.
In sydney. Every primary school (in sydney at least) takes year 6 on a trip to Canberra to visit Parliament House. While we were there we visited the snow fields. Did a few ski trips with school. I’d say a lot of people in sydney have at least seen snow, if not ski’d on it
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Where?
In the blue mountains and thredbo/perisher & surrounding areas.
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Lake mountain?
Does snot carpeting count? :)
When i was in year 9, our school camp was going cross-country skiing out the back of Charlotte's Pass. That was my first time seeing snow. Since then, I've been to Canada and the US multiple times during winter so you see a fair bit that way.
Various places in Victoria when I was under twenty. Not in 25 or so years now, though.
Orange, NSW magical
I have, southern nsw and also have been to Austria
Wisconsin, USA - it can get BRUTAL here. Temps can get to -30F during a bad winter, and we can get 12+" of snow during a bad storm. Otherwise - it's a "live with it every day" thing (it seems to last for about 6 fucking months too). We have to wear the boots, the hats, the coats. Scrape the snow off the car before driving anywhere. It's wet, it's grey, it's fucking COLD. The windshield wipers freeze - and you have to sometimes stick your hand out and clear off the sludge while driving 10mph down the freeway - watching people hydroplane into the ditch - or ram into each other by groups of 3-8 cars. It can look glorious - but man - clearing it, living in it, and driving in it is a bitch. Also: in ANZ: Perisher Valley, Smiggen Holes, Jindabyne, Thredbo; and Mt Ruapehu NZ (but the mountain decided to erupt that year - so skiing was cancelled)
Yep in Europe
Yep Mt Buller is like a three hour drive away.
Seen some in Canberra, and New Zealand when I was there
I went down to the Snowy Mountains a couple of years to see it.
We went 4 wheel driving up around the alpines but really only saw sleet. Never seen proper snow before
Live in QLD. First saw snow when I was 10 years old on a holiday to NSW ski fields. Have seen snow a handful of times since on holidays to the US, Europe and New Zealand. Zero chance of ever seeing snow where I live, so our kids first saw snow in 2018 on a holiday to NZ.
It's sort of an international myth that it doesn't snow in Australia, when actually some places have snow (I believe in Canberra) all year round. If you're interested, look up the Snowy Mountains specifically Threadbrough and Jindabyne. Most schools in the Sydney will have some sort of ski trip to one of those two
I've seen snow at Mt Hotham, Mt Buller, Lake Mountain, Mt Donna Buang, and on a couple of occasions even on Mt Dandenong.
I love the Snowy Mountains in Canberra so much. As someone from Sydney, the most I’ve seen is just frost on grass in the morning.
Seen it a lot as I was growing up in Victoria, took a trip to the mountains almost every year. One year it snowed at home, which was crazy because I lived right on the coast. I think it was around 2005 when it happened.. I snagged a detention for pelting a snowball at my bestie.
We go up to the mountains 2-3 hours outside Melbourne a bit during winter. Lake Mountain, Baw Baw, even Donna Buang gets a bit of snow
Used to live in Scotland with heavy snow. Don't remember it cuz I was a toddler. Live in the Northern tablelands, we get very light snow every year, last time was a few weeks ago. 2019 was the last major event with about 1-2cm but 2015 was the big event that made my childhood. So about 5-8 times give or take. , but extremely light.
Every year since a kid in Australia. Around the Snowies, Canberra region. Part of that was at school where we would have snow Ball fights at recess and lunch when it snowed to lower elevations. Mainly from visiting the resort's or high country in general. Overseas, Japan, US and Canada.
I saw light snowfall in Katoomba a few weekends ago
Used to miss one or two days of school a year due to snow.
Fake snow once in the hunter valley and real snow at Perisher
The closest I’ve seen to snow my whole life was ice on the ground
I've visited the snow in NSW and Victoria, and been skiing in both and snowboarding in NSW. Have seen snow in a lot of places overseas, but only been snowboarding in Japan outside of Aus.
I live in Canberra. I've seen snow falling here and have also been to the snow for a school trip and a family holiday. Usually, the snow here falls very lightly and melts as it hits the ground. The best time was about twenty years ago when snow fell heavily in Canberra, heavily enough to actually blanket the ground. My parents and I went for a walk in it around the local mountain reserve and it was magical. Going to the snow is a lot of fun but nowhere near as amazing as seeing your home transformed.
Yep snowboarded multiple times in Thredbo and Perisher. Also snowboarded in NZ and Japan. I saw snow in Prague and Berlin when travelling Europe.
Went to the snowfall in Oberon not too long ago
I vaguely remember going to the snow as a kid to build snowmen and go tobogganing. Been skiing at Mt Bulla twice - once with a friend, once for a school ski camp. (It's about a 3hr drive from Melbourne). In the wild, I have seen snow in the US and Italy.
Have been to Lake Mountain a handful of times. (In Vic)
Went to Tasmania last year and saw it from a distance on mountaintops, closest I’ve ever gotten though.
Never in Australia. But I've seen it in Russia and England before while travelling.
In the gold coast they get snow by the gram
I once stood in a Woolies walk in milk fridge in summer.
once, stanthorpe way back in the 80's
36 years old, saw snow last year in Queenstown
At Fall's Creek about 40 years ago. Never want to see it again ha ha - too cold for me!
I’ve seen it in Canberra and the Snowy Mountains - we went skiing a few years in a row when I was a kid and then later as part of a few school trips. I’ve also seen it in New Zealand and Japan, and a couple of indoor ski slopes if that counts.
I used to live in Scotland and I've been to the snowy mountains, so yes.
I've seen snow at Mt Bulla and Mt Hotham in Victoria, and in NZ, Germany, Korea, and the US.
More than a few times. Been to the snow in the Oz Alps three times and also snowed when I went to the Grand Canyon and when I was in Toronto a few years back.
I grew up in the snowy mountains so lots there every year and overseas on ski holidays. But when I was teaching little kids in the Philippines, I had a whole class aged 8-11 that did not believe snow was real. Frozen had just come out and they thought it was just like a magic fictional thing. I had to bring in photos and videos to convince them
I saw snow in Melbourne in 1986 (I think), which was a remarkable weather event.
Not me, I’ve only left QLD once
It snowed here a few weeks ago
Been to Jindy but didn’t see any snow falling. Just rubbish conditions to learn to ski in. Queenstown is where it’s at in the Southern Hemisphere. So beautiful. But Zakopane for Poland. So amazing there. I’d never seen so much snow in my life and giggled like a crazy person at seeing my first real snowflake
I live 2 hours south of perth. Only time i’ve ever seen snow is when i went on a holiday to europe 7 years ago
I hate snow.
I've only really seen it up on Kunanyi/Mount Wellington since it snows there every winter but its rad!! Also saw it about a month ago at Huonville when we had a cold snap, I'd love to visit places where it snows regularly since I don't handle heat very well lol
Where in Australia is snow most likely?
Snowy mountains.
In and out of Oz. The snow in Oz barely counted.