Heavy and widespread snow blankets South Australian ranges, reaching 15 cm deep in the Mid North

The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide) Mon 22 Jun 1908: ‘Snow has fallen on the Mount Lofty range, extending down to Belair, and also in the north, especially at Hallett, Terowie, and Yarcowie, where the snow was nearly half a foot in depth and prevented the officials from recording the rainfall. Intense cold was felt on Sunday, the maximum temperature at Stirling West on that day being only 44 deg. At Adelaide the maximum thermometer reading was 52, but twice during the day, when heavy hailstorms came up, the temperature lowered to 43’.

Evening Journal (Adelaide) Mon 22 Jun 1908: ‘When day broke on Monday and the clouds cleared from the hills, an extensive mantle of white could be seen covering the top of the range from Mount Lofty northward for two or three miles. Snow began to fall at about 6 a.m., and when our Summertown correspondent telephoned at 9 o’clock it was still falling. “It is a beautiful sight,” he added, “and for the time being this is anything-but a ‘summer’ town in appearance.” A message was also sent by our representative at Uraidla indicating that the snow lay on the ground, and the district was covered in white.

The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide) Mon 22 Jun 1908: ‘Tanurula, June 22. The weather has been cold and boisterous since Saturday and there was a heavy fall of snow on the Barossa Ranges during Sunday night. Kaiser Stuhl and the surrounding hills are still covered with snow. Some enthusiastic residents have gone out indulge in snowballing this afternoon’.

The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide) Mon 22 Jun 1908: ‘When the Adelaide citizens went out into the open and “looked towards the hills” on the eastern horizon the cause, of the abnormal frigidity of the atmosphere was explained. For miles the contour of the mountains was outlined in shining white… But if the spectacle was a fine one as seen from the city, the sight in the midst of the hills was indescribably grand. The brilliant white of the snow was over everything, trees, plains, valleys, houses, and hedges being covered with the fleecy flakes. Many people made a special journey from Adelaide by train, carriage, or motor to revel in the unwonted delight of gazing on such a wide expanse of real snow, and all who did so felt that their trouble was amply rewarded by the panorama of loveliness spread out before their enraptured eyes. Even residents in the hills were delighted, for the fall was heavier and more general than any they had previously witnessed’.

The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide) Mon 22 Jun 1908: ‘The ranges in the vicinity of Mount Lofty presented a very attractive sight on Monday morning, as they were enveloped in white. Snow fell heavily during the morning until 10 o’clock… Along the road the children—and older people, too engaged in snowballing. The butcher and the baker on their rounds had to submit to volleys of snow from the young people, and visitors to the scene were treated in a similar manner as they travelled either in motor car, horsed vehicle, or on foot to the summit of Mount Lofty’.

The Express and Telegraph Mon 22 Jun 1908: ‘The caretaker at the viceregal residence, Marble Hill, telephoned to the Superintendent of Public Buildings at 10.30 on Monday morning that there had been a splendid fall of snow in that locality, and that was then lying 4 in. thick on the ground.’