Weatherzone, By: Mellissa Mackellar, 04/19/2013

A blast of cold, wintry weather has brought the year's first significant snow to the alpine areas. In the wake of a cold front a very cold airmass moved over southeast Australia during Thursday evening, causing showers to fall as snow across the alps.

It was as cold as minus four degrees in Mt Hotham, where a couple of centimetres of snow settled on the slopes. This was the chilliest night since last October. Falls Creek and Mt Buller both dropped to an icy minus three degrees, their coldest night since Spring.

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