Snow on Mt Wellington, Hobart Tasmania, on Christmas Day is not an unusual sight.
Source: Red Bubble: Mt Wellington Snow Beauty
Title: Hobart under snow, two ladies walking
Description: 1 photographic print
Format: Photograph
ADRI: AB713-1-685
Source: Archives Office of Tasmania
HOBART’s CLIMATE
Source: Wikipedia
Climate
Hobart has a mild temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). The highest temperature recorded was 40.8°C on 4 January 1976 and the lowest was −2.8°C on 25 June 1972. Compared to other major Australia cities, Hobart has the second fewest daily average hours of sunshine, with 5.9 hours per day. (Melbourne has the fewest) [6] Although Hobart rarely receives snow during the winter, the adjacent Mount Wellington is often seen with a snowcap. Unseasonal mountain snow covering has been known to occur during the other seasons. During the 20th century, Hobart did receive many snowfalls at sea level because of cold air masses arriving from Antarctica. These snow-bearing winds often carried on through Tasmania and Victoria to the Snowy Mountains in southern New South Wales and northern Victoria. Though snow is unusual in general at sea level in Australia, Hobart has had the most sea level snowfalls out of any Australian capital city, although Canberra, Sydney,Melbourne, and Adelaide have sometimes recorded some snow.
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER – November 2006
Tasmania
The coldest November day in Hobart in 18 years occurred on the 16th, with snow and hail to near sea level state wide. Hobart recorded a maximum daily temperature of 10.6°C, the coldest November day since 1988.
