A cold front has swept snow across Tasmania’s mountains, closing the road to the top of Kunanyi/Mt Wellington and dropping temperatures below freezing on the state’s peaks.
The mountain sat at minus 2.5 degrees just after 8:20am on Saturday. In Hobart it was 7.3 degrees.
Hartz Mountains in the south fell to minus 0.7 degrees and Mount Read in the west to minus 0.2 degrees, while Liawenee on the Central Plateau hovered around freezing in gusts topping 67kph.
Launceston was 3.8 degrees, Devonport 8.4 degrees and Burnie 9.7 degrees.
The Bureau of Meteorology said a cold and gusty south-westerly airstream was flowing over the state, with showers falling as snow above 700 metres in the south-west during the morning.
Rain lashed the west and south-west overnight, with more than 20 millimetres recorded at several sites.
Light snow was also being reported on social media at Ben Lomond and around Great Lake, though the falls appeared modest.
On Mount Wellington, the snow forced Pinnacle Road to close at The Springs, cutting vehicle access to the summit.
The City of Hobart said the closure was due to forecast snow and the next update would come at 9:30am.
The bureau said a strong high pressure system would move over Tasmania on Sunday and settle the weather, bringing mainly fine days into the new week before another front brushed the south on Tuesday.
