As of this week..what is being called a very rare event....Queensland Australia "The Sunshine State" is finding itself under snow.
The Bureau of Meteorology say they do not know how much snow fell over the 3 times this week it has snowed in the Queensland areas as they do not have a way to measure it since it is so rare they only maintain rain gauges and this is their first snow event since 1984
Estimate up to 20 cm fell in New South Wales area and in Orange it was the heaviest snowfall in over 50 years..in Oberon it was the biggest snowfall in 40 years
Reports of cars have been parked on the sides of roads as people didn't know how to drive in it and in some places traffic was backed up for 30km
They are blaming it on the Antarctic Vortex......similar to what the US snow events have recently been blamed on the Arctic Vortex and 2/3rds of the country is experience rare and record cold temps.
