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- Australia blanketed in biggest snowfall since mid-80s</p>
<p>Our Foreign StaffAugust 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM</p>
<p>A kangaroo hopping through the snow in New South Wales</p>
<p>Several towns in eastern Australia were blanketed with their thickest layer of snow in decades as wild weather swept the area over the weekend.</p>
<p>Cars, roofs and gardens were completely white as a cold air front dropped as much as 16in (40cm) of snow on parts of northern New South Wales on Saturday, the most since the mid-1980s.</p>
<p>Snow also settled in areas of the neighbouring state of Queensland for the first time in ten years, Miriam Bradbury, a meteorologist at Australia's weather bureau, said.</p>
<p>The snow, combined with heavy rain and thunderstorms, has led to more than 1,455 incidents, according to the New South Wales State Emergency Service.</p>
<p>The Bolt Inn at Uralla, New South Wales, has become a refuge for people displaced by the snowstorm</p>
<p>Thousands of homes are expected to remain without power for another 24 hours, while mobile phone outages have been widely reported across the area.</p>
<p>More than 200 vehicles were stranded on roads due to snow, storms had damaged buildings, and major flood warnings were issued.</p>
<p>The rain started to ease on Sunday, but parts of New England in New South Wales were told to evacuate ahead of major flooding expected on Monday.</p>
<p>Snow blankets the grass at a golf club, in Armidale, New South Wales - Reuters</p>
<p>Ms Bradbury said climate change has made Australia's weather more volatile in recent years, but that this sort of event had only occurred several times in history.</p>
<p>"What makes this event unusual is how much snow we had but also how widespread, covering quite a large part of the northern tablelands," she said.</p>
<p>Australians in New South Wales enjoyed rare snowfall, building snowmen, having snowball fights and capturing the unusual winter scene https://t.co/ms5IhuxjmB pic.twitter.com/6leuFbcmav</p>
<p>— Reuters (@Reuters) August 3, 2025</p>
<p>Many were keen to make the most of the unexpected weather. Footage showed residents making snowmen and enjoying snowball fights, a rare sight in Australia's most populous state.</p>
<p>"It's a very surreal experience. I've never seen snow before in my entire life," Brendan Gough, who travelled hundreds of miles from Queensland to experience the phenomenon, told Reuters.</p>
<p>Police in New South Wales, said a car had become stuck in floodwater on Saturday evening and a female passenger was swept away. The search was continuing on Sunday, they said.</p>
<p>The 27-year-old woman was rescued without injuries, police later said on Monday, adding that the search for other possible victims was underway.</p>
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