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On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 8:02:25 PM UTC+1, Norman wrote:
There's a good slide-show of the snowfall that affected SE Queensland,
Australia on 16th/17th July 2015 at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QODJcq7sPeI

I saw the snow cover from 30-odd thousand feet on the 18th. Quite
impressive. It was the heaviest fall in Queensland since 1984.

Wow, I'm surprised such significant now could occur so far north in
Australia. Do you know the altitude of where the snow fell, some of those
shots looks quite hilly.

Unsurprisingly it looks like quite a wet fall with nothing really freezing.
Reminds me of a cold showery NW flow here. Do you know how long the snow lay
in the area?

Col

I don't know exactly where the photos were taken but in the general area the
land is quite widely in the range 800-1100 metres.

Snow falls in Queensland, on average, about once per year. The following is
quite an interesting tabulation of events

http://www.weatherarmidale.com/Qld%20Snow%20Table.htm

As the table shows, it has snowed in Brisbane on more than one occasion, the
most recent being 1984. On very rare occasions snow has fallen to relatively
low altitudes as far north as the uplands west of Mackay.

The snow on those photos fell during the night of 16th/17th July. It was still
lying extensively when I flew over the area on the 18th but it probably didn't
last much longer than that.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
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