By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
WILL it snow in Cranbourne tonight?
Network Seven’s meteorologist Jane Bunn seems to think so and local singer songwriter Sharon Start said if it does it will be history repeating itself.
Ms Start, a long term Cranbourne West resident, has had the pleasure of witnessing snowfall in Cranbourne and is crossing her fingers she’ll witness it one more time.
“Thirty years ago we awoke to snow in Cranbourne, so it would be good to see it again after all this time,” Ms Start wrote on Facebook.
Jane Bunn posted a list online of Victorian suburbs likely to wake up to a white winter-land on Wednesday 13 July and Cranbourne South was among her list.
Ms Start told the News it was about this time in 1986 that she ran for her camera to capture her son in the snow.
“We were up early to get my four-year-old son to kindergarten and as we walked to the car we thought at first it was frost on the ground,” she said.
“But it was shaped differently and that is when we realised it was snow.
“I grabbed my camera and took a photo of my son quickly before we headed off to kindergarten.
“My son is now 34 and when I mentioned the possibility of snow he said he vaguely remembers when it snowed all those years ago.”
Authorities are warning homeowners to batten down the hatches as a cold front hits Melbourne, with fierce winds whipping up carnage and tipping trees onto roads.
Thunder, hail, rain and snow are predicted for evening commuters today.
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