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The weekend's cold outbreak should bring up to 10cm of snow.
Not huge falls as the next low pressure system travels over western parts of VIC and NSW putting the alps on the 'dry' side of the low. We have properly cold air, but not the big precipitation.
A cold front kicked things off on Friday, introducing a large pool of cold air. This cold air can bring snow to the mainland down to about 800 metres at times (and as low as 500 metres in Tasmania). This pool of cold air persists across the weekend into early next week, only slowly thawing.
Cold air is great, but we need instability to produce snow, and we'll miss the best bit of that with the next low taking a western path. This results in lighter snow, but snow that should be beautifully dry.
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Next week has all the activity in NSW and southern QLD as high pressure moves across the southeast. The eastern alps just brush this activity with the chance of very light snow from about Monday through to Wednesday or even Thursday.
Meanwhile, the high pressure ensures a stretch of sunshine for the western alps, lingering through much of next week, warming from mid week.
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The next weather system begins on Friday next week. This is fed by tropical moisture coming down from the Indian Ocean. This far out (ie a week away) the questions are: how much instabilty will we have (ie will the alps be in the path of low pressure) and will this juicy moisture meet up with cold enough air?
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