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“down under” in Australia. And winter they are getting. “Icy blasts of wind
have led to an unusual blanket of heavy snowfall across Queensland—which
typically calls itself the “sunshine state”—during some of the coldest winter
weather in decades,” reports The Telegraph.
While it’s not uncommon for parts of eastern Australia,
including Queensland and New South Wales, to see snowflakes or minor
accumulation, there hasn’t been snow or cold like this in a while. The last
significant snowfall in this area was a little more than an inch in 2007.
This time some areas saw three inches of snow and recorded
their lowest temperatures in more than 40 years. “Cold fronts, caused by blasts
of icy winds from Antarctica, are common during Australian winters but this
year’s has been much stronger than usual,” says The Telegraph.
Read the Ecowatch
story - “Australia’s ‘Sunshine State’ Gets Rare Dumping of Snow During Record Cold Snap”.
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