Queenslanders melt with delight as snow spotted for ‘a few minutes’ north of NSW border

Footage taken at a tourist lodge in Scenic Rim shows a brief snow flurry, the area's first since 2015

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A rare and short-lived dusting of snow has fallen on parts of Queensland and northern New South Wales, surprising residents in high-altitude border areas on Tuesday as Australia's south-east shivered through a windy and wet start to the week.

Video footage taken at Spicers Peak Lodge at the Scenic Rim, west of the Gold Coast in famously sunny Queensland, showed snow flurries on Tuesday morning.

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