{"id":706399,"date":"2026-05-31T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706399\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:59:11","slug":"snow-forecast-for-tasmanias-peaks-as-winter-starts-with-a-cold-wet-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706399\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow forecast for Tasmania\u2019s peaks as winter starts with a cold, wet week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tasmania is in for a cold, wet start to winter, with snow forecast for the state\u2019s highest peaks on the first day of the season.<\/p>\n

The Bureau of Meteorology says showers will move across the west, far south and Bass Strait islands on Monday, falling as snow above 1,000 metres during the morning.<\/p>\n

A low-pressure system moving in from the Great Australian Bight is behind the unsettled conditions, which are expected to stick around for most of the week.<\/p>\n

The bureau says a large area of low pressure is expected to move over the Bight and approach Tasmania before settling over the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe low complex then moves over Tasmania and remains in the vicinity throughout Wednesday before moving away to the east on Thursday,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Snow on Mount Wellington. Image \/ Pulse (File)<\/p>\n

Showers are forecast statewide from Tuesday through to Thursday, with the conditions typical for early winter in Tasmania.<\/p>\n

Bureau records show June in Hobart averages a maximum of about 12 degrees and an overnight minimum near five degrees.<\/p>\n

The city usually records about 54 millimetres of rain across roughly 14 rainy days for the month.<\/p>\n

Snow on the peaks is also common at this time of year.<\/p>\n

Cold air masses regularly reach the island in June and July, bringing snow and frost to the highlands and interior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tasmania is in for a cold, wet start to winter, with snow forecast for the state\u2019s highest peaks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-706399","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\/706399","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=706399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}