Locked & Loaded: The System of the Winter

Winter takes a late-season bow in south-east Australia, showing there’s still life in the snow as September nears.

Here’s why putting a snow accumulation figure on this week’s system is futile: four days of severe alpine weather, driven by two cold fronts and three troughs, will bring wildly variable accumulations, shifting snow-to-liquid ratios (SLR), and winds that make even Friday night’s drier snow hard to settle.

While some forecasters will compete with chunky t…