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its called El Nino. This causes alternating pressure between Australia and California, this unique event causes the heat from california to pass in times of the year to australia, while increasing rainfall at the same time. The full description is more complex, but thats it in a nutshell

Australia is close to Antarctica like Florida is close to the Arctic. Australia is the size of the USA and stretches from 10°S to about 42°S. This is equivalent in the Americas of Costa Rica to the California/Oregon border or from the northern border of Sierra Leone to Barcelona or Rome in Europe. Those areas of the world are hot and so is Australia.

The most northern point of Australia is about 1000km from the equator, Hawaii is 2000km from the equator and Florida about 3000km away.

The coldest ever recorded in Australia was -23°C at Charlotte Pass in the Snowy Mountains in 1994. In contrast places in northern South Australia, southern Northern Territory and western NSW and Queensland have recorded temperatures in excess of 50°C.

Australia is far closer to the equator than Antarctica.

The bottom of Australia (Tasmania) is above 45 degrees south. New York City is at about the same level. Parts of the US, all of Canada and Europe (at about the southern France, northern Italy sort of level) are above 45 degree north (the equivelant of 45 degrees south...)

Do a search for a picture of a tropic map and you will see how far we really are away from Antarctica. Tasmania and the southern tips of the mainland get quite cold and do get snow. You will also notice how close the Northern tip is to the equator.

It's not actually far from the equator, and is quite close to the equator. Look on a geographically even map, there's a lot of ocean between it and Antarctica

It's quite near the equator

Australia IS a long way from the Equator, you wrote Jack.

Mate --are you looking at a map drawn by a drunk Irishman?

Look again .

Australia is generally hot because of the huge landmass, dry land, low cloudiness, the latitude, and low rainfall. It's also close to the equator too.

It does get cold. I lived in New South Wales (state in Australia) and we received heavy snow on the mountains. It's so snowy that there is a large ski industry there. It's also similar in Tasmania and Victoria.

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