{"id":94366,"date":"2026-06-30T03:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/94366\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T03:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:43:14","slug":"nervous-wait-for-snow-in-nsw-alps-ahead-of-school-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/94366\/","title":{"rendered":"Nervous wait for snow in NSW alps ahead of school holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alpine communities in the NSW Snowy Mountains are facing a nervous wait to see if forecast snowfalls can rectify a “terrible” start to the season.<\/p>\n

Warm temperatures and rain have hindered natural snowfall and snow-making operations at ski resorts.<\/p>\n

Since the season was declared open on June 6, 14 centimetres of snow has been recorded at Spencers Creek and it has since melted away. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Snowatch forecaster Peter Taylor said it had been a rough start to winter.<\/p>\n

“By Thursday morning, we’re probably going to reach the lowest of the lows as far as the season’s concerned, and it’s probably looking like the worst on record start to the season I’ve seen,” he said.<\/p>\n

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The slopes at Thredbo Resort are still busy this morning, despite patchy snowfall.\u00a0 (Supplied: Thredbo Resort snow cam)<\/p>\n

But temperatures are expected to drop later in the week, improving the chances for snow.<\/p>\n

“We should have snowfalls Thursday night through Friday and maybe Saturday morning,” Mr Taylor said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Then it clears up next week with fine, sunny weather and cold nights for snow-making.”<\/p>\n

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There are hopes a forecast drop in temperatures will allow for more snow-making at NSW ski resorts. (Supplied: Perisher Resort)<\/p>\n

That optimism is backed up by the Bureau of Meterology, which predicts up to 10 centimetres of snow to fall as low as 1,200 metres elevation on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“Obviously it’s been a pretty average snow season so far, but at least there’s a little bit on the way,” meteorologist Robert Urbaniak said.<\/p>\n

“Snow is tricky to forecast … if it comes down before it’s cold enough, then it falls as rain.”<\/p>\n

Hopes for snow<\/p>\n

Businesses in the alps have recently spoken out<\/a> about the lack of snowfall, and are hoping conditions improve in July in time for the school holidays.<\/p>\n

Michelle Lindsay, owner of Alpine Sports in Jindabyne, said many beginner skiers were still taking to the slopes, happy to learn on patchy conditions.<\/p>\n

But she is aware the bulk of the visitors, and the tourism dollars, will come when the snow does.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Like everybody in town, we’re quite anxious to see some snow fall as soon as possible. It’s been a very slow start,” \u00a0Ms Lindsay said.<\/p>\n

“People won’t come if there’s no snow, but we’re very excited there is snow in the forecast before the school holidays.”<\/p>\n

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Michelle Lindsay has been running Alpine Sports Jindabyne for eight years.\u00a0 (Supplied: Alpine Sports Jindabyne)<\/p>\n

Victoria is in the midst of its school holidays and in NSW the holidays start this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We can’t control what Mother Nature does, but as soon as it comes, everything changes,” Ms Lindsay said.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t take much to turn it around from a late start to a great season.<\/p>\n

“Everyone is just waiting with bated breath for the snow to come in and the people to come in so we can get this season started.”<\/p>\n

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Resort businesses and keen skiers are hoping Perisher Valley will soon look like this. (ABC South East NSW: Floss Adams)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alpine communities in the NSW Snowy Mountains are facing a nervous wait to see if forecast snowfalls can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,44566,44568,39875,44565,47120,934,13089,44564],"class_list":["post-94366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-alps","tag-charlotte-pass","tag-nsw-alps","tag-perisher","tag-selwyn","tag-ski-season-in-nsw","tag-snow","tag-snowy-mountains","tag-thredbo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116836998127876123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94366","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=94366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}