Australian ski areas have been celebrating pre-season snowfall over the Easter weekend.
Accumulations have been measured in millimetres rather than centimetres but have been enough to cause excitement with just two months until the 2023 ski season is due to begin there.
Most Australian ski areas are expected to open for the season over Saturday 10 - Sunday 11 Jun, 2023.
The Monday following has been a public holiday to officially celebrate Queen Elizabeth IIs birthday allowing skiers to make a long-weekend of opening-weekend. This year that public holiday in New South Wales and Victoria has officially been renamed to the "King's Birthday Weekend" following the death of the queen last year – and will stay the same date, even though King Charles III was born in November.
It is with a touch of sadness that we must move to change the name, but it is an important recognition of the new monarch, King Charles III, that the public holiday will continue and be henceforth named the King's Birthday public holiday," said the NSW Government's Employee Relations Minister Damien Tudehope.
Falls Creek pictured top, Perisher below.
