Map of the different climates in Australia
Map of the different climates in Australia
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A map of Australia, with different sections labelled with areas from other parts of the world with similar climates.
- The northern coast is labelled: Thailand
- Small patches of northern Queensland, northwest Victoria, and southwest NSW: Northern India
- Most of the areas east of the Great Dividing Range: Louisiana
- The southeastern corner, including most of Tasmania: England
- Kosciuszko: Finland
- Interior of Tasmania: Alaska
- Small patches of southwest Victoria, southeast South Australia, and southwest Western Australia: Coastal Washington
- Most of the southern coast: Southern Nevada (Los Angeles)
- A large area around Perth and a small area west of Adelaide: Southern California
- Southern Western Australia: Central Spain
- Western Queensland, northwestern NSW, and central Northern Territory: Southern Texas
- The vast majority of the interior of the country: Sahara Desert
Pretty wild that you can drive a short distance northwest and go from a Finland climate to a Louisiana one.
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Edit: oh shit that's the ACT. I thought it was some other mountainous area. I call shenanigans.
8 0 Replyoh shit that’s the ACT
Actually looking at it again, I think it might not be the ACT. I think it's around Kosciuszko.
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So they reckon that both Sydney and Melbourne have the same climate (?!), and that climate is just like England (?!?!).
No.
Just no.
3 0 ReplyJust confusing use of colour for the dataset I think with most of the population in different shades of green. Sydney is marked in the Louisiana region as far as I can tell.
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VIC isn’t the same climate as England - England never hits the 40s, and VIC never freezes over.
11 0 ReplyEngland never hits the 40s
We'll come back to that in a few months.
5 0 ReplyI was going to say, whatever you call Victoria and new South whales, they're not the same. Can't compare the amount of days in Melbourne that are either overcast or raining.
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I would not consider Los Angeles and southern Nevada to be the same climate. I can stand to be outdoors during the day in LA in the summer, but not Las Vegas.
7 0 ReplyLol yeah Vegas hits 116° in the summer. I'm also having trouble with Tasmania having the same climate as Alaska. It's like the size of an Australian state and gets consistently -60° in parts.
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Los Angeles is not in southern Nevada. Did they mean Las Vegas?
6 0 ReplyI think they were trying to say (or the Los Angeles area).
But I've lived in both cities. There is a huge difference between a coastal city and a desert city, even if the weather is roughly the same.
I preferred Los Angeles.
5 0 ReplyThey're not claiming it's in Nevada, they're claiming the climate is similar.
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They missed Toowoomba, it gets fricken freezing up there
2 0 ReplyInterior Tasmania is like Alaska??
2 0 ReplyNo. Not even a little bit. This whole map is silly.
7 0 ReplyI suspect whoever made it isn't actually Australian.
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Lol yeah parts of Alaska are 8° away from the North Pole and the majority of it is a frozen tundra. No way Tasmania is remotely similar climate.
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Source seems to be the same study as this. But obviously the labelling is bullshit
2 0 ReplyInteresting, but it’s very much seasonally dependent. Summers in the New England, are a different beast compared to those in actual England. But it’s nice to have a post that generates discussion.
2 0 ReplyNo no no, it’s all wrong, this is the actual one!
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