Big Snowfalls Across Southern Hemisphere
Big Snowfalls Across Southern Hemisphere
Published : 26-Jul-2016 12:43
Ski resorts in Australia, South America, New Zealand and even Southern Africa have all been reporting significant snowfall over the past 48 hours giving a clean sweep across the hemisphere's three skiing continents for fresh powder.
Australia has been having a largely consistently good winter since mid-June anyway but the snow has keep falling and based depths are now around the metre mark (Good for Australia) at most of the country's resorts.
Perisher, the Vail-owned largest centre has had 75cm of snow in the latest storms, 30cm (a foot) today alone - pictured above, video below.
New Zealand has had a more lacklustre winter after a promising start in early June with record warm weather all year, but things have turned snowier again in the last few days, albeit with some extreme weather including 100mph winds thrown in.
In the Andes there have been more big snowfalls, with Portillo and Valle Nevado now both reporting bases over the 2m mark, the deepest in the southern hemisphere at present. Portillo has had a foot of fresh snow in the last 36 hours.
It's also unusually snowy across southern Africa with snow falling in some of South Africa's cities causing road chaos. But I's ski joy up at the area's resorts with a foot (30cm) each at Tiffindell in South Africa and at Afriski in Lesosho (pictured below yesterday).
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