Australia's Climate

We generally think of the South being hot and the North being cold, but in Australia, that’s not the case. Since Australia is in the Southern hemisphere, the equator is to the north, therefore the more south you go, the colder it gets.

The north has a more tropical climate with a hot, wet season (summer) and warm, dry season (winter). The south has warm dry, summers and cool, wet winters. In the south, during the winter, the average maximums can get as low as 13°C, but also reach as high as 23°C, while in the summer, temperatures can reach up to 41°C!

Another thing different about being located in the southern hemisphere is that their seasons are opposite us in the northern hemisphere. Right now, it’s just turning into fall and the weather is cooling off. During our summer, it’s their winter and vice-versa.

Being such  a large country, Australia has many contrasting "climate-zones". There are tropical regions in the north, the south-west has a higher altitude than the rest of Australia and mountains and snow! Central australia is the outback, which is a hot, dry desert. http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/ausclim/ausclim.htmhttp://www.aussie-info.com/tourist/climate.phphttp://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/climate_averages/temperature/index.jsp