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NewsColony Australians set to get an early taste of winter this week with cold snap on its way Australia will get an early taste of winter this week, with rain, wind, snow and thunderstorms expected to batter the country’s east and south east in the coming days. South Australia, Victoria, and parts of New South Wales could shiver through one of the coldest Aprils in years thanks to a low-pressure system from the polar region heading their way. ‘This is a very strong and widespread cold outbreak across the south-east on the kind of scale we probably haven’t seen in April since 2008,’ the Bureau of Meteorology’s Dr Adam Morgan said on Tuesday.  The cold snap is expect to bring widespread rainfalls of over 15mm across the region from Wednesday and Thursday.  Scroll down for video  South Australia, Victoria, and parts of NSW are could shiver through one of the coldest April snaps in years A low-pressure system from the polar region is spinning south of Aust...