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A map of Australia, with different sections labelled with areas from other parts of the world with similar climates.

  • The northern coast is labelled: Thailand
  • Small patches of northern Queensland, northwest Victoria, and southwest NSW: Northern India
  • Most of the areas east of the Great Dividing Range: Louisiana
  • The southeastern corner, including most of Tasmania: England
  • Kosciuszko: Finland
  • Interior of Tasmania: Alaska
  • Small patches of southwest Victoria, southeast South Australia, and southwest Western Australia: Coastal Washington
  • Most of the southern coast: Southern Nevada (Los Angeles)
  • A large area around Perth and a small area west of Adelaide: Southern California
  • Southern Western Australia: Central Spain
  • Western Queensland, northwestern NSW, and central Northern Territory: Southern Texas
  • The vast majority of the interior of the country: Sahara Desert
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Pretty wild that you can drive a short distance northwest and go from a Finland climate to a Louisiana one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

((Altitude))

Edit: oh shit that's the ACT. I thought it was some other mountainous area. I call shenanigans.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

oh shit that’s the ACT

Actually looking at it again, I think it might not be the ACT. I think it's around Kosciuszko.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I would think Finland would be more around the top of the Snowies/Vic Alps, particularly as you approach the treeline. England seems a better fit for the ACT (though you might need to ignore summer for that).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ACT = Wales. My welsh grandmother literally moved up there after grandpa died because it reminded her of glamorgan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does Wales run a dry 40 degrees in summer?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Ergh. Fair.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah Kosciuszko would make a hell of a lot more sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So they reckon that both Sydney and Melbourne have the same climate (?!), and that climate is just like England (?!?!).

No.

Just no.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Just confusing use of colour for the dataset I think with most of the population in different shades of green. Sydney is marked in the Louisiana region as far as I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

VIC isn’t the same climate as England - England never hits the 40s, and VIC never freezes over.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

England never hits the 40s

We'll come back to that in a few months.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I was going to say, whatever you call Victoria and new South whales, they're not the same. Can't compare the amount of days in Melbourne that are either overcast or raining.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would not consider Los Angeles and southern Nevada to be the same climate. I can stand to be outdoors during the day in LA in the summer, but not Las Vegas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lol yeah Vegas hits 116° in the summer. I'm also having trouble with Tasmania having the same climate as Alaska. It's like the size of an Australian state and gets consistently -60° in parts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Los Angeles is not in southern Nevada. Did they mean Las Vegas?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I think they were trying to say (or the Los Angeles area).

But I've lived in both cities. There is a huge difference between a coastal city and a desert city, even if the weather is roughly the same.

I preferred Los Angeles.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

They're not claiming it's in Nevada, they're claiming the climate is similar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Interior Tasmania is like Alaska??

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No. Not even a little bit. This whole map is silly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I suspect whoever made it isn't actually Australian.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Given how specific they get with "Coastal Washington", put a $1.50 on them being from Coastal Washington.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

No way, I'm putting 2 cents tops

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Lol yeah parts of Alaska are 8° away from the North Pole and the majority of it is a frozen tundra. No way Tasmania is remotely similar climate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Interesting, but it’s very much seasonally dependent. Summers in the New England, are a different beast compared to those in actual England. But it’s nice to have a post that generates discussion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Source seems to be the same study as this. But obviously the labelling is bullshit