Canberra is quite extreme and unrelenting. Winter is months of cold, summer is a good three weeks straight of over 30C.
Whereas Melbourne and Geelong (in Victoria) have a reputation for bad / unreliable weather, but I prefer it. Weather is very changeable but the advantage is that you get a few days of cold snaps and then it's milder, or a few days of heat and then a break. (Apparently, we're a temperate zone, caught between weather fronts from the desert and from the antarctic below us -- but it basically means there's always a break in the weather if you wait.) Downside is taht you can have beautiful spring days on Thursday and Fridays, and the weather can shift back to wet and cold for the weekend.
Tourism, though, is usally focused on Sydney -- which is a few degrees warmer than us, but humid so the air feels warmer -- and Brisbane / Gold Coast / Sunshine Coast area (a big tourism area that spreads an hour's drive above and below Brisbane) which is far more tropical -- 22C and sunshine in winter, 35C and sunshine in summer (but also muggier). And if you go further north there's Cairns, which is tropical -- felt like FLorida, honestly -- but wonderful to visit in winter (27C) and apparently hideous in summer (90% humidity and over 35C -- eurgh).
You folks get these beautiful advertisements here, making it seem like the entire country has perfect weather all the time. Good PR.
I think it's also a size thing. Tourism concentrates on a few specific areas, but most people forget how big Australia is as a country. I mean, the US excluding Hawaii and Alaska is 8M sq km -- Australia is 7.7M sq km. You wouldn't expect the same temperatures in Washington and New Orleans, and that's about the distance from Brisbane to Melbourne.
Okay, when I talk this much about hte weather, we can see I relaly don't want to start Monday morning.
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Date: 2018-09-16 11:13 pm (UTC)Whereas Melbourne and Geelong (in Victoria) have a reputation for bad / unreliable weather, but I prefer it. Weather is very changeable but the advantage is that you get a few days of cold snaps and then it's milder, or a few days of heat and then a break. (Apparently, we're a temperate zone, caught between weather fronts from the desert and from the antarctic below us -- but it basically means there's always a break in the weather if you wait.) Downside is taht you can have beautiful spring days on Thursday and Fridays, and the weather can shift back to wet and cold for the weekend.
Tourism, though, is usally focused on Sydney -- which is a few degrees warmer than us, but humid so the air feels warmer -- and Brisbane / Gold Coast / Sunshine Coast area (a big tourism area that spreads an hour's drive above and below Brisbane) which is far more tropical -- 22C and sunshine in winter, 35C and sunshine in summer (but also muggier). And if you go further north there's Cairns, which is tropical -- felt like FLorida, honestly -- but wonderful to visit in winter (27C) and apparently hideous in summer (90% humidity and over 35C -- eurgh).
You folks get these beautiful advertisements here, making it seem like the entire country has perfect weather all the time. Good PR.
I think it's also a size thing. Tourism concentrates on a few specific areas, but most people forget how big Australia is as a country. I mean, the US excluding Hawaii and Alaska is 8M sq km -- Australia is 7.7M sq km. You wouldn't expect the same temperatures in Washington and New Orleans, and that's about the distance from Brisbane to Melbourne.
Okay, when I talk this much about hte weather, we can see I relaly don't want to start Monday morning.