Fire, snow and 100km/h winds: NSW battered by extreme and dangerous weather

Snowy Mountains highway closed at one end due to bushfire and nearly shut down at the other following snow

Fires, snow, 100 km/h winds and temperatures 10 degrees above average have hit New South Wales in the space of a single weekend.

The state had a day of variable, and in some cases dangerous, conditions on Saturday as strong north-westerly winds brought high temperatures to the north-east and triggered fire warnings in the south.

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