By 8.20am, the snow was nipping any exposed skin at Perisher as the main skifields filled with large numbers of coloured skiiers and snowboarders, together with the occasional tobogganer.

Aided by the start of NSW school holidays, tiny tots were soon seen obediently following their instructors into the snow, as winds reached 86 kilometres per hour near the Blue Cow terminal mid-morning.

First-time snowfield visiter Rochelle Linhart travelled with family and said they had been out in the snow in intervals to ease in her six-year-old stepdaughter.

"It's awesome," Ms Linhart said. "We have come back inside to warm up. We've had about three different stints."

At the other end of the experience scale, fellow Sydneysider Carl Chicco, who expects to spend about 30 days at the nation's winter playgrounds this year, welcomed the heavy snow.

"I was here last week and it was very different, it's great to see it here," Mr Chicco said.

The enthisiasm was shared by those speaking for the major skifields, who have welcomed snow in the last week – rising from a depth of about 14 centimetres to 102 centimetres at Spencers Creek by Thursday – as a marker of one of the best ends to June in many years.

Thredbo communications manager Susie Diver said the official 102 cm depth was not reached until early August last year.

"Once the snow fell early this week, calls to our reservations centre had a massive spike, up 300 per cent in some cases [from the week before]," Ms Diver said.

Perisher spokesman Richard Phillips said with the winter storm expected to stay around for another two days, the snow season was one of the best in 15 years.

"This would be as good as it gets for this time of the year," Mr Phillips said.

The strong winds and snow means the $4 million Freedom Quad chairlift at Perisher's Guthega runs is still yet to open to the public but Mr Phillips expected the addition to begin use once the storm finished.

Selwyn Snowfields marketing manager Kel Heatley said the next week would probably be the best of the season.

"June has always been an on and off month, kind of like September - [but] the phone's definitely been off the hook at our snow centre since we got the snow on Monday," Mr Heatley said.

Selwyn had all 10 of its lifts open on Saturday. Thredbo had 11 of 14 available. Perisher had 40 lifts open and two closed, plus five (including the Freedom Quad) "on hold".

Temperatures were around minus three degrees on the upper snowfields at lunchtime Saturday, with similar temperatures and snow conditions expected for Sunday.