It is summer in Australia but someone forgot to tell Tasmania, where people have rugged up again as hail and ice blanketed the ground.
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| Hail on the ground at Orford, Tasmania, January 13, 2018. |
Fresh from a top temperature of 35 degrees Celsius just six days ago, hail fell in parts of southern Tasmania on Saturday and people retrieved their winter clothes.
The Bureau Of Meteorology (BOM) in Tasmania went as far as describing the phenomenon of the ground being covered in ice during the Australian summer as "very unusual”.
"I don't think we'd see that very often, but as you know, it has snowed on Christmas Day before in some places, and it's also been 37 and 38 degrees a few years ago, so we vary quite a lot here," explained the BOM's Debbie Tabor.
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