Several areas in Australia were blanketed with its thickest layer of snow in decades as wild weather swept through the country over the weekend.
Around 20 inches of snow had been forecast to fall on Saturday in some towns, with more than 10cm of rain expected in others the New South Wales State Emergency Service said.
Thousands of homes remained without power yesterday, with mobile phone outages widely reported across the area.
Images emerging from New South Wales across the weekend showed buildings and streets covered in deep snow, with vehicles struggling to push through the sludge which had piled up on the roads.
Cars, rooftops and highstreets were left completely white and authorities said a number of towns in eastern Australia were left flooded and without power due to the extreme weather - which has not been seen since the mid 1980s.
