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Australian Snow Is So Rare They Don't Have Tools to Measure It

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Alissa Walker
Filed to: SNOW DOWN UNDER 7/17/15 5:25pm
Australian Snow Is So Rare They Don't Have Tools to Measure It
As a new climate report concluded this week, our planet is definitely getting warmer, which leads to more extreme temperatures around the world. Now Australia is seeing its coldest temperatures in decades, and last night, many Australians saw snow for the first time in their lives.
The local Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Gorrdon Banks told The Guardian that they actually didn’t know how much fell because they don’t have any equipment on hand to measure snow:
“We don’t actually measure the depth of snow fall, it’s so rare here in Queensland that really all we have to go on are rain gauges,” he said.
“We didn’t really have any official observations that snow was recorded, just reports from the public and just from the vision, I think we can say it was in the range of 2 to 5cm [one to two inches].”
The last time the region saw measurable snowfall was in 1984, so many people were seeing snow for the first time ever, including this reporter:
Australia has seen plenty of weather extremes recently, experiencing its own decade-long drought followed by years of flooding—all of which scientists have attributed to climate change due to rising carbon emissions. Yet still the country’s prime minister continues to block renewable energy programs.
A snowman in Katoomba, Australia, photo by Brett Hemmings / Getty Images

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  • TGS1985Alissa Walker
    7/17/15 8:03pm
    I have to admit I was hoping Australia would have freaked out a little just so we could enjoy the irony of a country full of deadly... well, EVERYTHING being scared of a little snow. But atlas, the Aussies are just too well adjusted.
    That said, Australian bobsleigh team confirmed for 2018 Winter Olympics, right?

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    • KhanTGS1985
      7/17/15 8:20pm
      Can you stop throwing stereotypes around...when will people realise that there isn’t “deadly” anything around here, it was a joke that got out of hand in the 70s, and now everyone believes that there are spiders and snakes everywhere...Trust me, there isn’t a single one, it’s a lot safer here than almost every other country in the world. The so called “deadly” animals...live THOUSANDS of kilometres away.
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      • SeanTGS1985
        7/17/15 8:30pm
        Australia has actually had a bobsleigh team (4 man) since the Nagano Winter Olympics.. We typically come something like 92nd out of 132 or some such. So, not so much “medal winning” as “enthusiastic participants having a good time”
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        • TGS1985Khan
          7/17/15 8:35pm
          Oh lighten up... I wasn’t trying to say “Australia is so dangerous don’t go there”... not in the slightest... just that it would be funny if people we’re all super excited/worried about snow when THE FACTS ARE a large amount of poisonous species happen to live on your continent. And yes you’re right, not right outside every door...
          Overall I was paying Aussies a compliment by saying that despite something as freaky for them as several inches of snow, they are still handling it like champs. If it makes you feel any better Californians seem to see freak out whenever it rains for the first time after every summer, or at least it seems so on the roads. I hate to think how they’re are going to react after this summer...
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          • sneakypooAlissa Walker
            7/17/15 5:36pm
            Hah, loved that video of the woman touching snow for the first time. Adorable. The thought that there are people out there that have never experienced snow strangely has never even occurred to me. It’s just such a natural part of life here. 
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            • Shadowstransneakypoo
              7/17/15 5:52pm
              Born and raised in Florida, most I had ever seen was white fluff falling but melting when it hit the ground. Went to Alaska last year, wanted to plop down right there and make a snow angel. In-laws were there tho...damnit, I should have..
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