Australian snowfalls are declining - There's little doubt about it. A few years ago now, Snowriders WA were lucky enough to acquire over 50 years of snow fall data for an area called Spencer's Creek. Spencer's Creek is located close to Charlotte's Pass high in the Snowy Mountains in NSW. This data has been collected …
3 golden rules for predicting Aussie snowfall events
With all the snow and excitement of the last few days, we thought we'd offer a quick lesson on how to predict Aussie snow events using a few simple rules. In our experience, the difficulty is not in predicting when it's going to snow, but how much is going to fall. At Snowriders Aus we …
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The 2016 Aussie ski season is off to a great start: or is it?
About this time every year, people start getting really excited about amount of snow on the ground. Automatically, excitement turns to speculation about what the season might do, where it might end, and how it compares to previous seasons - especially the ones that really delivered i.e. 1992 (316 cm); 1968 (307 cm); 1964 (355 …
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2015: worst start to the ski season ever?
Because we are over the media speculation about the status of the Australian snow season, we at Snowriders WA decided to take a closer look. Every year, normally around the June school holidays, we are subjected to media speculation about the present snow cover and the extent to which it translates into (a) the beginning …
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