25 December 2006

Bushfires one week, white Christmas the next: could it only happen in Australia at Christmas?


Two stories from The Age show how the Australian (or more accurately, the Victorian) climate can turn around so rapidly:


One reports that an area which a week ago was threatened by bushfires has been covered by snow. The other reports hail in the outer suburbs of Melbourne which, with the accompanying photo, has given the headline writer sufficient licence to judge it a white Christmas.


Here in Adelaide it's been cold by our standards, with a little rain falling at times. A grey Christmas, as somebody in the group with whom I shared an excellent Christmas lunch, described it.

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