Mawson Cam looking Grand!

10-15cm i reckon

Hahah it would appear they arent all that down with posting of web cam images on external blogs/forums. Link to it anyway http://ski.com.au/snowcams/australia/tas/mawson1.html

Stone the crows: 5.9C at 2 PM: central Hoey. That is a cold airmass for March.

Mt Wellington -2.2 at 3.30 so it's definitely cold as you say.

Some of those current Tasmanian obs are making me queasy, way to cold for my liking.

NO NO NO NO NO!!!

They are making me salivate.

This just qualifies as Tassie. Have a look at some of these wind gusts from Hogan Island, 146 km/h:

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801/IDV60801.94949.shtml

I guess extreme winds are quite common there because the roaring 40's westerlies must squeeze through the narrow gap of Bass Strait, a similar effect to Wellington NZ.

Ok Sb, i have to ask. What is a convicted sockpuppet?

A sockpuppet is someone who uses multiple accounts in order to misbehave online (troll, vandalise, game the system etc). Mainly used on Wikipedia. The "puppet master" or sockpuppeteer controls various "puppets", who work together to meet the demands of the miscreant.

I may as well come out and say that I am snow4sydney (and briefly Brad_Nuker). I changed my handle to better reflect my location, namely, because I'm exposed to the south. Nothing more. Hence, the sockpuppet thing is a bit of fun .

Spoke to my son at Cradle this morning - he said plenty of snow there yesterday and overnight - obviously it's still there too. Earliest falls struggled with warm ground but eventually it started to hold.

Apparently looks pretty damn good there atm.

ok, i never would have guessed. cheers.

Our gridded extremes analysis is indicating lowest March maximum temperatures on record on Friday over much of central and southwestern Tasmania. Haven't had the chance to look at individual record-breaking stations yet. Mount Read's 0.0 misses the Tasmanian March record by a few tenths.

Make sure you let us know the stations that did record their lowest ever maximum temperatures when it's confirmed Blair

Can confirm the following records at stations with 30+ years of data:

Butlers Gorge
Lake St. Clair (two sites combined)
Tarraleah
Maatsuyker Island
Strathgordon (equal)

Take out Maatsuyker Island (off southern Tas) and the others are basically the centre of Tas (SG a bit more western) and within say 40 - 50km of each other if not less (as crow flies).

Cheers Blair.

So the cold air may have pooled at that central point or it was the right place right timing etc.