Is the weather hot or cold in Australia?

Answer 1

For the most part, Australia is regarded as a hot country.

Some areas of Australia may be particularly cold in winter, but nowhere in the country experiences the huge blizzards reported in parts of North America and Europe.

In the far north, winters are very mild, with minimum and maximum temperatures in Darwin averaging 19 degrees to 31 degrees.

By comparison, minimum and maximum temperatures in Brisbane average 10 degrees to 21 degrees, while in Adelaide they average between 7 and 14 degrees. In Hobart, the southernmost capital city, temperatures average between 3 degrees and 13.5 degrees.

Many places south of the Tropic of Capricorn and just a little way inland have minimum temperatures that can drop below 0 degrees Celsius, with frosts appearing regularly on winter mornings. The deserts are very cold at night in winter.

Australia also has an alpine region, where winter temperatures range from around 5 degrees below zero to maximums of around 1-3 degrees Celsius.

Answer 2

Some areas of Australia may be particularly cold in winter, but nowhere in the country experiences the huge blizzards reported in parts of North America and Europe.

In the far north, winters are very mild, with minimum and maximum temperatures in Darwin averaging 19 degrees to 31 degrees.

By comparison, minimum and maximum temperatures in Brisbane average 10 degrees to 21 degrees, while in Adelaide they average between 7 and 14 degrees. In Hobart, the southernmost capital city, temperatures average between 3 degrees and 13.5 degrees.

Many places south of the Tropic of Capricorn and just a little way inland have minimum temperatures that can drop below 0 degrees Celsius, with frosts appearing regularly on winter mornings. The deserts are very cold at night in winter.

Australia also has an alpine region, where winter temperatures range from around 5 degrees below zero to maximums of around 1-3 degrees Celsius.

Answer 3

Generally, it is not cold at all at Christmas in Australia, but there are always exceptions.

Australia is a vast country, and temperatures range widely. Christmas in Australia occurs in summer, as December is the first month of Australia's Summer, but temperatures still vary.

On Christmas Eve in 2006, Tasmania (Australia's southern island state, and the state with the coolest climate) recorded temperatures in excess of 30 degrees Celsius, with bushfires threatening, while on Christmas Day they had a white Christmas, due to sudden snowfalls. This is a rarity. In 2010, much of southeast Australia had heavy snowfalls in the lead up to Christmas, but not on Christmas Day.

Meanwhile, many areas of inland Australia or the far northwest will see temperatures easily reaching 40 degrees Celsius on Christmas Day from time to time. The most temperate cities are probably Sydney and Brisbane, on the east coast, where average Christmas temperatures hover between 27 and 33 degrees Celsius.

Answer 4

Both.

There is a great deal of variety of weather in Australia due to the fact that it is a vast continent of comparable size to the United States, barring Alaska. Most of the continent lies within the temperate zone, but northern Queensland and the Top End of the Northern Territory experience tropical and sub-tropical weather, with monsoonal rains and cyclones during the summer. This area experiences just two seasons: wet and dry.

By contrast, Tasmania and parts of Victoria can experience both very cool summer temperatures, then sudden jumps to extreme heat. In the centre of the country are dry, desert regions with high daytime temperatures and low amounts of rain.

It is also very dry throughout southern Australia in summer - as witnessed through the tragic bushfires that killed over 100 in Victoria (February 2009). Australia experiences droughts for long periods of time, and associated heatwaves. Yet, at the same time people were losing their lives and homes in Victoria, others along the northern coast of Queensland were losing their homes to floods, with the promise of even more rain to come. Brisbane and regions north along the eastern side of the Great Dividing Range are prone to sudden thunderstorms in summer. Inconsistency is the catchword in Australia - for example, Melbourne and southern Victoria can easily switch from hot and dry one day to cold and wet the next.

Very few places in Australia experience snow, compared to the size of the continent. In Winter, snow falls in the Alpine regions of New South Wales and Victoria, and sometimes even in the central tablelands of NSW, near the Blue Mountains and Orange. Tasmania experiences some snow, as does Canberra, less frequently. To show what an unusual country Australia is, snow has even been known to fall in the southern tablelands of Queensland, Australia's "Sunshine State".

The temperature in Australia changes with the seasons, but in general it ranges between highs of 50 degrees Celsius to lows of sub-zero temperatures. These are extremes. Generally, much of Australia ranges between 10 degrees Celsius and 30 degrees Celsius at different times of the year. The lowest temperatures reached in Australia, however, are not comparable to the extreme lows experienced in other continents. This is partly because Australia lacks very high mountains and enjoys the presence of warming oceans around its coastal regions.

Answer 5

it is warm