New South Wales towns experience significant amounts of snow fall

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Meanwhile, the New South Wales city of Orange experienced its most significant fall in four years. And just a few hours from Sydney snowballs were hurled as winter delivered its parting gift.

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00:00For someone who'd never seen snow before, this boy had a pretty good aim.

00:07Sydneysiders enjoyed an unusually short trip to the snow.

00:10Probably three hours, so yeah, we've been pretty lucky.

00:14Flakes swirled through the windy streets of Blackheath at dawn, coating rooftops, caking cars,

00:20and sprinkled like icing sugar across meadows west of the Blue Mountains.

00:25Bloody cold.

00:26Got this to warm up.

00:28Golf balls would have been hard to spot in orange, snowmen not so much.

00:32I woke up and I looked up the patio and patio window and I whacked myself and I was like,

00:39is this a dream or am I, is this real life?

00:43In Oberon, there was no Midsummer Night's dream.

00:46Instead, a winter's fantasy came true.

00:49This is actually quite substantial and I think further up will be more.

00:53There was slush on the road up to nearby Shooter's Hill,

00:56where ammunition for a snowball fight was abundant.

00:59Well, looking at these snow-covered pines, you'd be forgiven for thinking you were somewhere in the Austrian Alps.

01:05But this forest south of Oberon is just a few hours' drive from Sydney,

01:09and the coverage is thick enough for snow sports.

01:18In Victoria, shovelers worked up an appetite on dinner plain.

01:22An end of season gift to skiers and snowmen.

01:27two hours' drive from Sydney in the pole.

01:28I'm going to learn all this.

01:29I'm going to start with a gentle girl.

01:30I'm going to get to people who's in the desert in the snow than I do,

01:32you know, a little bit of this,

01:33that's para-living that.

01:35You can start with a tiny girl.

01:36You can start with a 90 minutes.

01:37It's just a little bit of a future.

01:38I'm going to take a little bit of this.

01:39I'm going to get to the middle of that journey.

01:40To find a little bit of a smooth way with the joy in the sun,

01:41that's a bit of a beautiful way with the water-living.

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