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Autumn snow has fallen in parts of Victoria and rainfall has dampened the school holidays, as a cold front moves across southeastern Australia.
Icy cold winds hit Melbourne on Saturday night, with low-level snow and frost sweeping across parts of regional Victoria, bringing an early taste of winter.
Smatterings of rain fell across Victoria, with Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, Yarra Valley, Dandenong Ranges and East Gippsland receiving significant downpours.
Ferny Creek and Monbulk recorded the most rain across the state overnight, with 60mm falling in those areas.
Snow fell around Victoria’s Alpine region, including at Falls Creek, Baw Baw, Mt Buller and Lake Mountain, bringing an early start to winter.
Ski resorts at Lake Mountain and Hotham hailed the first snowfall of the season on Instagram, with Mt Baw Baw measuring 13cm of snow overnight.
Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Sarah Scully said dustings of snow were also reported at Marysville, the Dandenongs and Ferny Creek.
“Victoria woke up to an incredibly cold start to this morning, with general temperatures between four to eight degrees,” Mr Scully said.
“There’s a real cold blast due to a south-westerly burst of air flow across the state.”
Temperatures in Victoria have already plunged this week, down from 30C on Thursday to 16C on Saturday.
The dreary weather marked Melbourne’s coldest morning since October last year, getting down to 8.3C overnight.
Maximum temperatures into the week are expected to only reach the mid to high teens, with a slight reprieve on Tuesday before another cold front pushes through on Wednesday bringing showery and cold conditions.
Ms Scully said a further 5-10mm could fall across Victoria on Sunday, and potentially increase to 30mm about the ranges in Melbourne’s east.
The most rain will likely hit Ferny Creek.
“I’d say it would be near a month’s worth of rainfall for Ferny,” Ms Scully said.
“The rainfall in that area is significant, but not widespread across the state.”
Meanwhile the trough will dump the majority of rainfall across Tasmania and southern Victoria, with lighter falls elsewhere.
Snow levels will drop to 700m across Tasmania, and 900m for Victoria and southern NSW.
Huge swells may also lead to dangerous coastal conditions.
Canberra is expected to plunge below zero on Monday.
The low will be -1C, while it‘ll be a warmer 17C in the daytime.
Hobart will be a cool 7C overnight at the weekend, with snow on Mt Wellington possible.
Adelaide will see a low of 12C over the weekend, with Sunday reaching 19C.
Sydney will escape the cold blast, with highs of 25C expected on Saturday.
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