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Snow is dumping on Australias ski fields as a huge low pressure system delivers arctic conditions

Blizzard conditions ... Kids play in Spring snow at Blackheath in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney in 2012. Source: News Limited

IT'S happening again. South East Australia's bitterly cold winter is delivering another blow.

Remember the Megablizzard and Son of Megablizzard?

Yet another major snowstorm has roared into town today, but this system is colder than the previous couple of storms, with snow to extremely low levels.

Snow has fallen to as low as about 500 metres around Ballarat in Victoria, and down to 600 metres in the small South Australian town of Hallett.

Australia's alpine resorts are located between about 1300 and 2000 metres above sea level, and they are also receiving heavy snow today, with more than half a metre of fresh stuff predicted by the weekend.

Probably not the best day for a bike ride at the Cedarwood Apartments at Falls Creek in Victoria. Source: NewsComAu

For some unknown reason, this family at the small resort of Selwyn Snowfields in NSW brought their lunch in an esky. Source: NewsComAu

Seasoned snow watchers are now starting to talk in hushed tones about the 2014 season as potentially one of the greatest ever. It's still very early. Peak depths are usually experienced in late August or early September. But the official NSW measuring station at Spencers Creek has hit 130cm - and that's before this storm. The depth could be closer to 2 metres by the weekend.

Here's a look at this year's chart (so far) compared to 1981, which was the greatest season of the last 50 years. As you can see, there's still a long way to go. But the graph is heading in the right direction.

The red line is this year. By the end of the week, it should be near the kink in the blue linehich is 1981. Source: NewsComAu

Meanwhile, this week's freezing snowy weather is being caused by an intense low pressure system centred south of Tasmania, which is directing a polar burst northwards. The system is also generating high winds, bringing severe weather warnings for South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.

Lucky escape ... A Tree branch fell on a car on Greenhill Road in the Adelaide suburb of Unley during severe weather. Picture: Ten Eyewitness News. Source: Channel 10

Adelaide can expect damaging winds, hail and heavy rain today. The forecast was for snow as far north as the Flinders Ranges, above 800 metres, but as mentioned, it appears to be falling a little lower.

The strongest recorded wind gust overnight was 117km/h at Port Lincoln, on the state's south coast.

Local TV stations in the area were off air last night due to storm damage.

Storm clean up ... Emergency services clean up storm damage in the Adelaide suburbs. Picture: Simon Cross Source: News Corp Australia

The severe weather will extend east throughout the day affecting Victoria and New South Wales by tonight.

In Victoria today, large areas of the state will see snowfalls above 1000 metres, and by the weekend this will lower to around 500 metres, dumping snow in areas that rarely see it, including the hills around Melbourne.

Snow started to fall at lunchtime in and around Ballarat as seen in this Instagram post.

Damaging winds, hail and thunder are also forecast for most parts of Victoria.

More on the way ... Falls Creek was blanketed with a massive 130cm of snow during the two storms two weeks ago. Picture: Jason Edwards. Source: News Corp Australia

In NSW the Bureau of Meteorology, on Wednesday morning, issued a severe weather warning for damaging winds and blizzard conditions.

"Damaging winds averaging around 60km/h with gusts of 100km/h are forecast for higher parts of the Snowy Mountains forecast district, above approximately 1500 metres. Alpine Peaks experience winds above 80km/h with peak gusts of 125km/h. Localised damaging winds averaging 60 to 65km/h with gusts of 90km/h are possible for the Hunter, Illawarra, Central Tablelands, southern Tablelands, and the Snowy Mountains forecast districts Wednesday afternoon and evening."

Winter wonderland... snow falls in the Blue Mountains town of Blackheath only once or twice a year. Source: News Limited

"Blizzard conditions are forecast to develop this morning in areas above about 1500 metres in the Snowy Mountains, then extend to lower levels during the day."

That has already happened, with snow reported down to about 1100m so far in NSW.

Snow is predicted to fall close to Sydney in the Blue Mountains tonight and tomorrow, with Katoomba, Orange and Bathurst likely to be covered in the white stuff.

Flakes are expected to fall down to the 900 metre mark.

Snow may extend further north to the Northern Tablelands, towards the Queensland border on Thursday.