Historically, one associates Tassie with freezing temperatures, tonnes of the fluffy white stuff aka snow, road closures due to weather, amazing winter festivals but we have had a strange winter so far. We had a Winter Feast and Nude Solstice Swim highlighting Dark MOFO, the last Huon Valley Mid-Winter Festival, and weather that can only be described as crazy. Yes, there have been some very cold days causing us Tassie folk to rug up, but when the precipitation arrived it’s been so warm that whatever little snow might have been around melted which is unfortunate. In the last 3 days, the mighty Kunanyi/Mt. Wellington would’ve received almost 200mm of rain in the middle of July which should be one of the coldest months. We should have had metres high walls of snow along the Pinnacle Road leading up to the summit, but instead we have water flowing all over the mountain which has caused the ‘Disappearing Tarn’ to appear.
