By DANE LILLINGSTONE
It finally happened. After all the false starts, it finally snowed in Queensland.
Eukey, Stanthorpe and surrounding areas along the Granite Belt woke up to a winter wonderland last week with 8 centimetres of snow recorded in the region.
It was the biggest snowfall in Stanthorpe since 1984 and an extremely rare occurrence in Queensland.
It was reported that it started about midnight last Friday and continued on to the early hours of the morning. It covered trees, cars, roads and left enough behind for kids to build snowmen and have snowball fights.
Tourists flocked to the area and kids stood about starry eyed as many witnessed their first every experience with snow.
Stanthorpe police reported that despite large volume of visitors to the area, it was traffic incident free over the weekend as more and more people flocked to the town in hope of catching a glimpse of the snow.
The mercury only managed to climb to a high of 5.9 degrees on Friday in Stanthorpe with the low recorded at -2.1. The freezing conditions continued over the weekend but it looks like we have seen the last of the snow for now.
