Polar outbreak causes one of the most widespread snow events in New South Wales

Residents in Central New South Wales are experiencing one of the most widespread snow events in years due to an intense polar outbreak.

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00:00large parts of the central tablelands have been blanketed in snow this morning stretching from

00:08the blue mountains with reports of the white stuff falling at black heath we've seen snow at

00:13oberon places like cookwell on the southern tablelands and then here in orange as well

00:18where there's been a heavy dusting of snow some of the largest we've seen since 2021

00:23here on mount kanobolos garner bulla kids have been out playing throwing snowballs making snow

00:29men a real positive attitude for the the last couple of days of winter where we've seen

00:35temperatures fall well below zero some of the the real feels minus eight degrees earlier this

00:42morning very cold but people are still getting out and about to brave the conditions the cool weather

00:48it's expected to only last today the weather forecast is looking pretty nice for the rest of

00:52the week but people are getting out and about and enjoying the last couple of days of winter here

00:57in orange with heavy snowfall we saw it in town uh on the one of the local golf courses people were

01:04out throwing snowballs blanketed in snow uh we saw cars on the main street covered in snow so yeah it's

01:11been a very heavy drop here in the central tablelands today in orange uh and other parts of the the

01:18central west as i mentioned before so a really enjoyable last couple of days for for winter for

01:23people here getting out and enjoying the last of it