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A map of Australia, with different sections labelled with areas from other parts of the world with similar climates.
- The northern coast is labelled: Thailand
- Small patches of northern Queensland, northwest Victoria, and southwest NSW: Northern India
- Most of the areas east of the Great Dividing Range: Louisiana
- The southeastern corner, including most of Tasmania: England
- Kosciuszko: Finland
- Interior of Tasmania: Alaska
- Small patches of southwest Victoria, southeast South Australia, and southwest Western Australia: Coastal Washington
- Most of the southern coast: Southern Nevada (Los Angeles)
- A large area around Perth and a small area west of Adelaide: Southern California
- Southern Western Australia: Central Spain
- Western Queensland, northwestern NSW, and central Northern Territory: Southern Texas
- The vast majority of the interior of the country: Sahara Desert
Pretty wild that you can drive a short distance northwest and go from a Finland climate to a Louisiana one.
((Altitude))
Edit: oh shit that’s the ACT. I thought it was some other mountainous area. I call shenanigans.
oh shit that’s the ACT
Actually looking at it again, I think it might not be the ACT. I think it’s around Kosciuszko.
Yes, I would think Finland would be more around the top of the Snowies/Vic Alps, particularly as you approach the treeline. England seems a better fit for the ACT (though you might need to ignore summer for that).
ACT = Wales. My welsh grandmother literally moved up there after grandpa died because it reminded her of glamorgan.
Does Wales run a dry 40 degrees in summer?
Give it time
Ergh. Fair.
Yeah Kosciuszko would make a hell of a lot more sense.
So they reckon that both Sydney and Melbourne have the same climate (?!), and that climate is just like England (?!?!).
No.
Just no.
Just confusing use of colour for the dataset I think with most of the population in different shades of green. Sydney is marked in the Louisiana region as far as I can tell.
VIC isn’t the same climate as England - England never hits the 40s, and VIC never freezes over.
England never hits the 40s
We’ll come back to that in a few months.
I was going to say, whatever you call Victoria and new South whales, they’re not the same. Can’t compare the amount of days in Melbourne that are either overcast or raining.
I would not consider Los Angeles and southern Nevada to be the same climate. I can stand to be outdoors during the day in LA in the summer, but not Las Vegas.
Lol yeah Vegas hits 116° in the summer. I’m also having trouble with Tasmania having the same climate as Alaska. It’s like the size of an Australian state and gets consistently -60° in parts.
Los Angeles is not in southern Nevada. Did they mean Las Vegas?
I think they were trying to say (or the Los Angeles area).
But I’ve lived in both cities. There is a huge difference between a coastal city and a desert city, even if the weather is roughly the same.
I preferred Los Angeles.
They’re not claiming it’s in Nevada, they’re claiming the climate is similar.
They missed Toowoomba, it gets fricken freezing up there
Interior Tasmania is like Alaska??
No. Not even a little bit. This whole map is silly.
I suspect whoever made it isn’t actually Australian.
Given how specific they get with “Coastal Washington”, put a $1.50 on them being from Coastal Washington.
A $1.50 AUD or $1.50 USD?
No way, I’m putting 2 cents tops
Lol yeah parts of Alaska are 8° away from the North Pole and the majority of it is a frozen tundra. No way Tasmania is remotely similar climate.
Source seems to be the same study as this. But obviously the labelling is bullshit
Interesting, but it’s very much seasonally dependent. Summers in the New England, are a different beast compared to those in actual England. But it’s nice to have a post that generates discussion.
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