Parts of Australia covered in thick blanket of snow

A thick layer of snow blanketed the grass at a golf course in Armidale, News South Wales

Some of you might have great memories of playing in the snow with your friends and family.

But there are some places in the world where children, and even some adults, haven't seen it for themselves.

In the southern hemisphere is it currently winter.

Australia is one of those places where snowfall is rare, but some parts of the country have just been covered in a thick layer of the stuff.

With some areas seeing it settle for the first time in 10 years, according to experts.

Several towns in the east of the country were covered in the thickest layer of snow in decades, as cold weather swept the area over the weekend.

Authorities said the weather caused floods, stranded vehicles and cut power to thousands of homes.

As much as 40cm of snow fell in parts of northern New South Wales.

Miriam Bradbury who is a meteorologist at Australia's weather bureau - the team that monitors the country's weather - said that the most snow that areas has seen since the mid 1980s.

Lots of people made the most of the opportunity, getting outside to have snowball fights and make snowmen.

Some people even travelled from the neighbouring state of Queensland to experience it.

Brendan Gough was one of those people, he said: "I've never seen snow before in my entire life."

Miriam said that Australia's weather has become more unpredictable in recent years, but snow isn't unheard of.

She said: "What makes this event unusual is how much snow we had but also how widespread."