Crowds have descended on Australia’s ski resorts as snowfall and cool temperatures bring a small reprieve to a bleak season, though snow-making conditions are not tipped to last long.A busy Sunday on the ski fields follows what was the coldest day of the year for many to start the weekend.Glen Innes Airport in the NSW Northern Tablelands plunged to -5.8C overnight, Weatherzone data shows, while at 9.30am Sunday Thredbo was still -1.3C.Skiers were quick to hit the slopes at Thredbo on Sunday, as they were at nearby Perisher.Australian snowboarding influencer Rani Siregar posted on Sunday that people were enjoying the conditions amid a lean season.“No sugar-coating it, this is one of the worst seasons we’ve had in a long time. But you don’t get to pick the conditions, you just gotta make the best of what you got,” she said.On the ground at Thredbo, one of the ski resort’s staff says there was some enjoyable fresh snow on some of the resort’s unmarked runs on Saturday, though that snow had hardened on Sunday.“We have a couple of fine days on the way before the next storm crosses on Tuesday and Wednesday … The cloud up high should clear for a mainly sunny Sunday, enjoy it and have a good day,” the staffer wrote in a daily weather report.Australia’s ski resorts have had a lean year so far, with an unseasonably warm May and June crippling much of the start of the season. Images of one narrow man-made ski run at Victoria’s Mt Buller last month created much chatter online, as most of the resort’s alpine landscape was exposed grass and mud.It has made the past week’s snowfall a welcome reprieve.Perisher has received 2cm of snowfall in the past seven days, and the carpark up Kosciuszko Road is full on Sunday morning. The live cameras show Mt Buller is busy too now the slopes have been coated in snow.The Bureau of Meteorology’s Angus Hines told NewsWire that warm conditions up at the ski resorts would melt the snow though.“There hasn’t been any fresh snow today or yesterday, sort of a little late last week,” he said.“But it’s not ideal snow making conditions either because it’s actually tending pretty mild on the mountains today. We’re looking at high temperatures … between three and six degrees on a lot of the alpine slopes.“So just a little bit warm to really try and either make snow or keep the snow that’s there.”Elsewhere conditions were “pretty benign”, Mr Hines said.The country was “in between” weather systems that brought a powerful cold front and low snowfall to Tasmania late last week, but a bit of that rainfall was still causing minor flooding.“Most of the country’s had pretty mild weather, although, having said that, it has been very cold through the last couple of nights in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland … temperatures deeply into the negatives in some of those places.”A “fairly feeble” cold front hitting southern WA will gather momentum as it heads east in the coming days.“It will pick up a bit of steam by the time it reaches Tasmania on Tuesday, so we’re looking at another pretty strong wintry blast down in the very far south on Tuesday,” Mr Hines said.“Melbourne will get a little taste of that on Tuesday with some rain and then some cooler temperatures as we head into Wednesday.“Sydney should have a pretty bright week for the most part, maybe tending showery towards the end of the week, but plenty of sunny days before that happens.”