Snow could fall as low as 600 metres in Tasmania next week as three cold fronts sweep across the state.<\/p>\n
The first front will cross late on Saturday, bringing rain, gusty winds and much colder conditions behind it.<\/p>\n
Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Dean Narramore said the high pressure system that brought a week of cold, frosty mornings has moved into the Tasman Sea, opening the door for the front.<\/p>\n
He said it would bring \u201ca band of rain, maybe a rumble of thunder or two, widespread strong and gusty winds and much colder conditions as well behind it\u201d.<\/p>\n
Narramore said Tasmania would start Saturday dry, with temperatures in the low to mid teens, before showers picked up across the north and west.<\/p>\n
A band of rain will move across much of the state overnight, though eastern areas should stay dry until the early hours of Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood news for snow lovers,\u201d Narramore said, with snow expected to develop in the alpine areas of Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The bureau has issued a road weather alert for parts of the Central Plateau and Upper Derwent Valley, warning icy roads will make driving conditions dangerous on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Hobart can expect 14 degrees and a few showers on Saturday, then 11 degrees on Sunday with showers, possible hail and thunder and snow in the mountains.<\/p>\n
Showers will spread statewide on Sunday, falling as snow above 900 metres, with thunderstorms and hail possible in the west.<\/p>\n
A second front is expected to cross on Monday in a strong westerly flow, dropping the snow level to around 600 metres by the evening. <\/p>\n
Thunderstorms are possible about the southern coast.<\/p>\n
Snow to around 600 metres is forecast again on Tuesday, with hail possible in the west and far south. <\/p>\n
A third front is then expected on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snow could fall as low as 600 metres in Tasmania next week as three cold fronts sweep across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-791653","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\/791653","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=791653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}