A surprise on the Mount
Posted on 29 July, 2014 by Connecting Country
The namesake for our local shire, Mount Alexander, generally seems to be a bit under appreciated by most locals. However, John Ellis and Marie Jones captured a special rare event on camera there on 17th July 2014. Snow.
Further photos are available for viewing on the Facebook page of Chewton.net (click here if you have a Facebook account).
There were further reports of snow falls to the immediate south of the Mount Alexander Shire (Porcupine Ridge, Daylesford, Kyneton). And falls of hail-stones across much of the rest of the shire. To the best of our knowledge, there were no snowfalls onto the nearby remaining patches of old growth Snow Gums (Eucalyptus pauciflora) that occur along some of the roads between Elphinstone and Sutton Grange!
I can remember one other occasion of snow falling in our shire and that was at South Muckleford! It would have been in the late 70’s or early 80’s and remained on the ground for quite a while. It was widespread as I was alerted to it by a friend living in the Nuggetys outside Maldon.