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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

((Altitude))

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does Wales run a dry 40 degrees in summer?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ergh. Fair.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

England never hits the 40s

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Interior Tasmania is like Alaska??

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I suspect whoever made it isn't actually Australian.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No way, I'm putting 2 cents tops

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

They missed Toowoomba, it gets fricken freezing up there

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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] -4 points 11 months ago

No no no, it’s all wrong, this is the actual one!

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