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You got to be kidding. My Japanese hit the beaches around canaberra with massive carrier support in JULY. Guess what, it's snowing.

huh?

I went to a website to check if this is possible.

http://www.myforecast.com/bin/climate.m?city=50396&metric=false

According to this, under history and record monthly snowfall for July, there is a N/A, I'm guessing it hasn't snowed there.

Am I wrong, or is this a bug (a costly one for me, now suprize is lost).

On the bright side, I did learn that summer is winter and winter is summer in Australia!

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In Australia, snow can fall in the mountains of Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Tasmania. There is a regular snow season in several areas which have seasonal ski tourism industries. Sometimes snow has even been reported in the mountains of South Australia, Western Australia and Queensland though this is very rare.

Snow at sea level has been recorded on mainland Australia but has happened more times in Tasmania, some of the snow at sea level has fallen in the off season like summer. Snow has fallen nearly everywhere in Tasmania, though it is rare to fall in the north coast at sea level.

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From what I've researched Canberra is the city in Australia most likely to ever receive snow, granted not as much as what you would see in the Northern Hemisphere, but the surrounding area and especially the higher elevations get quite a bit of snow and some good skiing too :)

Here are a few links to snow in the Australian South East:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiing_in_Australia

http://www.selwynsnow.com.au/templates/sel/page/page_html_standard.php?secID=68

Based on this I don't think David was far off at all in setting the weather zones for this area.

Hubert

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