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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Peter Hobson

Australian towns blanketed by heaviest snowfall in decades

Snow blankets the grass at a golf club in Armidale - (Armidale Golf Club)

Several towns in Australia’s east have experienced their heaviest snowfall in decades, causing floods, stranding vehicles and cutting power to thousands of homes.

A cold air front dropped as much as 40 cm (16 inches) of snow on parts of northern New South Wales on Saturday, the most since the mid-1980s, said Miriam Bradbury, a meteorologist at Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).

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