Does it ever get cold in Australia?

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The_Mouse

"cold" is relative.
To North Queenslander - cold is anything below 20 degrees Celcius.

In the outback in the deserts - it can get prety cold - below freezing at night.

Where I live in southern New South Wales and winter here it can get down to minus 4 or 5 (it has been known to go down to minus 10) celcius in winter nights.

We also have snow fileds here in Australia.
I think that answered your question.

Cheers

iansand9876

The lowest recorded temperature in Australia was -23 Celsius, at Charlotte Pass. It has snowed in every Australian state and territory (even at Uluru in the NT and the Stirling Ranges in WA).

Every winter there is snow on the ground for extended periods in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania.

frantic

I now live in New Zealand - noted for a cooler climate than Australia - yet I got chillblains when I lived in Sydney!
I have lived in South Island as well as north island of NZ yet have never been as cold in my life as when I lived in Toowoomba which is in Queensland near Brisbane.
homes, shops, offices in very cold climates are built to protect against the cold whereas in warmer climates they aren't, so you can be much colder in winter in a "warmer climate". And it all depends on the area. There are parts of Australia that rarely get cold (upper North and west) but there are parts where it snows.
That is what is so fantastic about Australia - IT HAS EVERYTHING.

Live_For_Today

Where I live in Queensland it got down to 2 degrees last winter, so yes we too have a winter season and down south they get snow.

Sufi

depends what part of australia but around brisbane and north of that it does not every snow. i had a foreign exchange student in oklahoma from australia and she was 16 and had never seen snow in australia.
but australia is a big place and down in the more southern parts the weather is probably a lot different--i don't completely know about that.

Addy

yeah of course in the winter ^_^.....

Elizabeth

It all depends on 2 things:
1. Where in Australia you are.
2. What do you consider cold?

We don't get regular winter snow falls except in the Snowy Mountains.
Generally speaking, in southern Australia, if you were to compare our winter to Northern Europe or Canada our winters are more like their springtime and sometimes summer.

Mery

Some times it gets too cold but most of the time its hot, but unfortunately I never have seen snow;)

tuppenybitz

of course it does
we have snow in some places

Ken E

What do you mean "cold"? There are plenty of places where temperatures drop below freezing, even places in the Tropics. Frost is common in inland towns in winter, even along the Tropic of Capricorn. To have frost you need to get a few degrees below freezing. But we never see "40 below".

In this city it is not unusual to have winter overnight temperatures of -5 centigrade, that is about 24F I suppose. Sometimes it gets even colder. This area does get some snow, but it usually melts the instant it hits the ground. Drive south for 90 minutes and you are in the Snowy Mountains where the winter snow fields are bigger than all of Switzerland and there are several ski resorts.

But Why??

one of the coldest places Ive ever been is the top of Mount Wellington in Tasmania.
My oath it gets cold.

lynlands

Hi
Australia is a very big varied continent! The north of Australia is tropical while the south (where I live) is temperate.
Typical winter temps here range fromabout -3 degrees C to about 14 degrees C and summer can be about 8 degrees C overnight. It is not unusual to have snow on Mount Wellington on Christmas Day - Mount Wellington is above Hobart - Australia's southern most capital city. Coastal parts of Australia do not get as cold as inland parts as the sea has a moderating effect on temperature.

Old Beach Sage

yes it does. When it's summer here it's winter there

kelsi c

not sure

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