{"id":600425,"date":"2026-04-11T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600425\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:05:13","slug":"drifting-snow-and-damaging-winds-in-tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600425\/","title":{"rendered":"Drifting snow and damaging winds in Tasmania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strong winds continue to howl across much of Tasmania today, including <a href=\"https:\/\/mtmawson.info\/snow-cam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mt Mawson<\/a> where snow has been falling much of the day and snow drifts continue to grow. Damaging wind gusts exceeding 100km\/h have been observed in some locations, including the following peak gusts:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n106km\/h at Hogan Island at 1:00pm&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n102km\/h at Mount Wellington at 10:30am&#13;<\/p>\n<p>For the second day in a row, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weatherzone.com.au\/warning\/IDT21037\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">severe weather warning<\/a> for damaging winds has been issued for parts of Tasmania.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These winter-like conditions can be attributed to a polar air mass which has roared over Tasmania in the wake of a powerful cold front. In addition to the strong winds and drifting snow, this outbreak of polar air has brought subfreezing temperatures to parts of the state this morning:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nMount Wellington fell to -3.0\u00b0C at 3:48am&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nLiawenee dropped to -1.8\u00b0C at 3:14am&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tmin11April26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image: Forecast minimum temperatures for the morning of Saturday, April 11, 2026, according to the ECMWF Model. Source: Weatherzone.<\/p>\n<p>This winter blast will not stick around. Temperatures are expected to warm across Tasmania early next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strong winds continue to howl across much of Tasmania today, including Mt Mawson where snow has been falling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-600425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}