#989218 - 12/05/2011 21:17
Re: What's happening in Tassie?
[Re: DaveM]
|
Weather Freak
Registered: 11/09/2008
Posts: 95
Loc: Banora Point - Tweed Coast
|
Hi Dave, yes, we would have experienced the same :), although, I don't miss having to hose the ice chocked heat pump. I don't miss the very short Winter days when we would loose the sun behind the "Mountain" around 3ish. We just turned the heat pump on for the first time in a year.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#989648 - 15/05/2011 15:45
Re: What's happening in Tassie?
[Re: DaveM]
|
Weatherzone Addict
Registered: 16/10/2001
Posts: 1322
Loc: Burnie
|
Cradle Mountain region was covered in good snow and Great Lake had a couple of Inches. Don't think it snowed to 300m, probably fell as low as 400/450 with some light snow settling by 500. Wasn't a massive amount of rain, but even this far north I got 5.5mm.
_________________________
@tasweatherman on twitter - for a bit of realtime weather banter or #tasweather to join the conversation
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#989904 - 16/05/2011 21:15
Re: What's happening in Tassie?
[Re: DaveM]
|
Weatherzone Addict
Registered: 16/10/2001
Posts: 1322
Loc: Burnie
|
Middle of next month!
Yeah, west coast got a reasonable drop, everyone else made do. Still surprised to get 5.5mm, more than I'd have got if I was in Hobart and that in a South Westerly.
Forecast for the north west was a bit off today, spent a lot of the day with drizzly showers out past sisters beach not the mostly clear conditions expected. Must have been some onshore moisture carried on the stiff breeze.
_________________________
@tasweatherman on twitter - for a bit of realtime weather banter or #tasweather to join the conversation
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1000599 - 12/07/2011 12:29
Re: What's happening in Tassie?
[Re: DaveM]
|
Weatherzone Addict
Registered: 10/07/2006
Posts: 2098
Loc: Double Bay, Sydney, NSW
|
Generally I worked on the fact that the heaviest falls were late August and up to late September. June is often very light on and July it's getting a bit more snowy. If I had to say 1 month it would be August and probably mid August on. HOWEVER in any given year it can be quite different eg MAY 2000 which was ridiculously heavy for that time.
Changes whip through very quickly and in a 2 week period there could be 3 or 4 days of potential snow especially in the higher bits.
As I said above Lake Dobson/Eagle Tarn in Mt Field (16km behind Russell/Horseshoe Falls) is a truly magical spot. Wombat Moor (on the way there) is bleak/windswept awesome with stunning views of the ranges of Mt Field/Mawson/Rodway Range.
At Lake Dobson the water is often ice and snow encrusted around the edges, or over the whole surface of the lake, heaps of temperate rainforest/Myrtle/Sassafras/Scorparia (ouch) /Pandani etc and tall Antarctic Ferns etc. Walk around Dobson to Eagle Tarn & back down the road to the car park. You are only a few hundred metres from the Mt Field ski area.
It's in the shadow of Mt Mawson so snow hangs around a long time at Lake Dobson.
Lots of Platypus there. It is a magical magical kingdom in snow!!!. We always took visitors (or just ourselves) up there if it looked like snowing. Ok, so i'm in the process of planning my Tassie getaway in early August, so at the moment the plan is to drive down to Melbourne and catch the spirit of Tasmania to Devonport, from there i'd like to head to the Cradle Valley for a few days of leisure then on to Lake St Clair/Central Highlands. From there I’d like to aim for the Hobart area, now I’d like to place myself not in the city itself, but in an outlying area (a place with good altitude would be great) that is within 30mins/1hr of the city, after that I’ll be heading back to Devonport via the midlands hwy through Launceston. I’ve put those places you suggested on my to do list Dave, so are there any other places that spring to mind that might be of interest in the above areas? Really hoping I will get to see plenty of frost/snow while I’m there, so trying to find accommodation in areas with a decent altitude to maximise my chances of this. I’ll be taking my 2010 subaru outback on the trip, so even tho it’s an AWD would you recommend carrying a set of chains just in case things get icy, or would you say in most situations the AWD would be enough? Thanks in advance.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1000611 - 12/07/2011 13:48
Re: What's happening in Tassie?
[Re: DaveM]
|
Weather Freak
Registered: 28/12/2010
Posts: 956
Loc: Between Bundy and Gladstone
|
When we went to Tassie we hired a motor home for most of our time. That gave us opportunity to get to places and stay where and when we wanted. Wasn't badly priced. Probably bout the same as motels really. When we stayed in Hobart we stayed at Undine. It is a lovely place and the hosts there were wonderful, warm and friendly. Close enough to Hobart to see it but far enough out that it wasn't a great drama to travel out from there. http://www.yukiba.com/hotels/australia/h...obart-8451.htmlFrom there we travelled round in a hire car to places like MtField that didn't have large amounts of snow at that time (october) but enough for us Qlders to play in. Have a great trip and don't forget the pictures 
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1002898 - 27/07/2011 11:13
Re: What's happening in Tassie?
[Re: bundybear]
|
Cloud Gazer
Registered: 26/07/2011
Posts: 1
|
Hi All,
I am a new member on this forum. My family and I are spending a week at Cradle Mountain in the second week of August and we are hoping for some snow around some of the resorts there.
What do you think the chances are that we will get to see some? I would love for my kids to see the snow fall as they have never experienced it before.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1004743 - 07/08/2011 01:47
Re: What's happening in Tassie?
[Re: DaveM]
|
Weatherzone Addict
Registered: 16/10/2010
Posts: 1434
Loc: Southport QLD
|
There has been so much activity right across the south of our continent over the last couple of weeks with still more to come by the look of things, I was wondering how Tassie has been affected. Any storms, snow, wild winds to report ?  I have very fond memories of my one and only viit to Tas and always enjoy your weather updates but you've been mighty quiet the last week or so.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#1004784 - 07/08/2011 11:56
Re: What's happening in Tassie?
[Re: Cloudz]
|
Cloud Gazer
Registered: 20/06/2011
Posts: 7
Loc: Central Tas
|
Been quite mild the last week or so , but this arvo the winds picked up a bit here in central Tas and it's freezing cold wind..brrr time to light the fire
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
27415 Members
32 Forums
21902 Topics
1225143 Posts
Max Online: 2925 @ 02/02/2011 22:23
|
|
|
Previous Topic
Index