Thick snow blankets parts of southern Queensland

[Mark]

The big chill in southern Queensland has delivered what could be the state's most significant snowfall in 30 years.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said up to eight centimetres has been recorded by locals around Eukey and Stanthorpe on the Granite Belt.

Senior forecaster Sam Campbell said the falls started about midnight and continued until as late as 5:00am.

"It's a difficult thing for us to keep track of how much snow actually falls in some of these places. Often they're quite isolated and we don't have reliable observations," he said.

"But what we can say is we had a record of five centimetres falling in 2007 and nothing significant in our records between then and 1984, so it's entirely possible that these are the best falls seen in Queensland in over 30 years."

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