Global Courant 2023-05-09 21:33:23
Kangaroos in Australia put on a show as they waded through the snow.
South East Australia experienced a cold front that brought heavy snowfall and large surf over the weekend.
Snow fell in Oberon, about 120 km (75 miles) west of Sydney, on Monday as the weather bureau warned farmers in the south-east and alpine areas that their animals exposed to wet cold conditions could die.
“I didn’t expect it to be this thick,” Oberon resident Wendy Stanton said of the snow.
“It started kind of early in the afternoon yesterday and it just kept going and by the time I got up, everything was covered in snow.”
Watch kangaroos hop through snow as cold front hits southeastern Australia. pic.twitter.com/bwXQvrHK3l
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Perisher ski resort received 10cm of snow in the last 24 hours, just over a month before the start of the ski season.
Temperatures along the east coast defied autumn and dipped below freezing on Monday morning, Dean Narramore, senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, told Nine News on Monday.
Flights were delayed in Sydney after the airport closed two runways from late Sunday until just before midday on Monday due to strong winds, a Sydney Airport spokesman said.
A cold front across the southeast kicked in over the weekend with temperatures falling well below average for the month, according to the weather bureau, which predicted morning frosts would last until early Wednesday.
The capital, Canberra, was dusted with snow on Sunday, though it soon turned to slush as temperatures rose during the day, according to videos shared on social media.
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