It delivered. The predicted weekend snowfall we told you about last Thursday turned out to be one of the heaviest snowfalls of the 2022 Australian snow season.

It's not unusual to see heavy September snowfalls in the Australian Alps. Indeed, peak season depth has been recorded more frequently in September than any other month, and Falls Creek and Hotham in Victoria are now claiming a deeper natural base than at any time of the season since 2018.

All the same, this was still a significant snow event, which sets up the higher alpine resorts nicely for the last two weeks of the season.

The date-stamped image below shows the snow stake at Perisher this morning. Bear in mind that the table is cleared every day, so that's not the entire weekend's snowfalls – just the impressive accumulation from Sunday into Monday morning.

Image: Not the worst sight on a sunny September morning. Source: Perisher.com.au.

Some of the totals reported by the resorts are pretty staggering:

• Perisher (NSW) is calling 65 cm from this storm in total.
• Hotham (Vic) is calling 61 cm.
• Falls Creek (Vic) is calling 54 cm.
• Thredbo (NSW) is calling 53 cm.

At lower levels below about 1500 metres, it was rain for most of the weekend until snow arrived on Sunday night with a burst of slightly colder air. That means that Australia's lowest mainland ski resort, Mt Baw Baw, had a pretty soggy time of it before 8 cm of snow finally fell last night.

But overall, this was as mentioned a very significant September snowfall, which has now mostly cleared with only very light snow flurries persisting today on the higher peaks.

Image: Tasty conditions out wide at Perisher on Monday morning. Source: Steve Smith.

Tuesday looks fine in the mountains, but from Wednesday through to Sunday, there's going to be some moisture about of the unfrozen variety. That's how it goes. September can deliver snow, but it also brings warmer spring temperatures.