Snow in Sydney last week

I must be a weather God like Al. It snowed in Sydney last week when I was there.

Don't let them tell you it was "soft hail", it was snow. Friends saw flurries of the stuff. I went outside after the storm passed (and it was a large one, with thunder and lightning), to see off a friend and thought I was going to freeze.

[Bureau of Meteorology Senior Forecaster] Mr Zmijewski doubted the 1836 snow report, saying weather observers of the era lacked the expertise of today. 

and 

"Two hundred years ago they may not have been that well trained and it was probably small hail...."

I doubt anything's changed in the training and expertise of weather forecasters over the past 200 years. 

More pix at the Sinney Moaning Hemorrhoid.