Orange set for snow down to 500 metres on Saturday, Sunday in white weekend

Whether or not we see snow settling in town -if we see snowmen on Wade Park, snowball fights in Cook Park and angels on the museum roof - is the big question for the weekend.

The Bureau of Meterology expected snow to begin falling at the top of Mount Canobolas after sunset on Friday, with snow down to 500 metres from 7am on Saturday morning.

And on Saturday it isn't likely to stop coming.

The BoM is predicting it to snow across the city nearly all the way through Saturday and into Sunday morning, with up to 10mm in total predicted across 36 hours.

Whether or not snow settles in town is another matter.

Orange has been drenched in the past week by a cold front which has engulfed the entirety of South-Eastern Australia and given peaks a dusting of snow from Tasmania to the Hunter.

The city's recorded just under 28mm of rain since Monday - which coincided with Orange City Council lifting water restrictions to level four, with the sodden ground potentially too wet for snow to settle.

The city's expecting just a top of four degrees on Saturday, but with biting 30 degree winds it's likely to feel much colder than that out and about.

Sporting associations across Orange and the region are set to make calls on ground availability late on Friday or early on Saturday.

Sunday will be a top of just five degrees, with similar winds expected, before seven and eight degrees on Monday and Tuesday.