{"id":60010,"date":"2026-05-04T21:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/60010\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:58:35","slug":"australian-alps-snow-forecast-10-25cm-expected-may-6-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/60010\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Alps Snow Forecast: 10-25cm Expected May 6-8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777931915_792_weatherbell-3.png\" alt=\" Australian Alps snow forecast May 2026\" width=\"640\" height=\"526\"\/>Credit: WeatherBell<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The Australian Alps snow forecast for May 6-8 brings a cold midweek storm with the best totals from Wednesday afternoon through Friday morning, delivering snowfall across most mainland alpine areas. Most resorts are currently closed, so this is more useful as a mountain snowfall and base-building update than a lift-served powder forecast. The strongest signal in the snow forecast is for 10-25 cm across many mainland alpine areas, locally higher at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountbawbaw.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Baw Baw<\/a>, while Tasmania looks lighter and Ben Lomond has little to no snow signal. The largest three resorts \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perisher.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perisher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thredbo.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thredbo<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtbuller.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buller<\/a> \u2014 are expected to see around 10-16 cm of snowfall.<\/p>\n<p>Confidence in the Australian Alps snow forecast is strongest from Wednesday afternoon, May 6, through Friday morning, May 8. The individual models converge well on the timing, with snow developing Wednesday afternoon or evening, peaking from late Wednesday night through Thursday, then tapering Friday morning. They diverge modestly on intensity and on how long light showers linger Friday, but the storm structure is consistent. Snow levels while it is snowing are generally near 900-1,300 meters, with colder pockets lower during the main burst, so most alpine elevations should be cold enough for accumulating snow.<\/p>\n<p>Snow quality should be dense to moderate rather than especially light. <a href=\"https:\/\/snowbrains.com\/brain-post-what-is-the-snow-liquid-ratio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SLRs<\/a> generally run 7-11 during the main snowfall, with temperatures mostly -6\u00b0C to 2\u00b0C in the colder alpine zones. The individual models also agree on a windy storm, though they vary on peak gust strength. Sustained winds commonly run 30-60 km\/h during the storm, and exposed terrain could see gusts in the 80-120 km\/h range where gust data is strongest.<\/p>\n<p>From Friday afternoon through Sunday, the snow forecast guidance converges on a quick shutoff and a dry, milder pattern. Any leftover snowfall looks negligible, with temperatures recovering to roughly 0\u00b0C to 16\u00b0C across the terrain by the weekend. Monday through Thursday also looks mostly dry, with the individual models aligned on little to no additional snowfall and only modest spread in wind and temperature. That should leave the midweek snow to settle under calmer, milder weather rather than being followed by another significant storm in this forecast period.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Alps Snow Forecast: Resort Totals (May 6-8)<\/p>\n<p>Mount Baw Baw \u2013 18-27 cm<br \/>\nCharlotte Pass \u2013 13-19 cm<br \/>\nMount Buller \u2013 11-16 cm<br \/>\nThredbo \u2013 10-15 cm<br \/>\nMount Hotham \u2013 10-15 cm<br \/>\nPerisher \u2013 10-14 cm<br \/>\nFalls Creek \u2013 10-14 cm<br \/>\nSelwyn Snowfields \u2013 9-13 cm<br \/>\nMount Mawson \u2013 5-8 cm<br \/>\nBen Lomond \u2013 0 cm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: WeatherBell The Australian Alps snow forecast for May 6-8 brings a cold midweek storm with the best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,1875,1886],"class_list":{"0":"post-60010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alps","9":"tag-snow-forecast","10":"tag-snowfall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116518551704387313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}