 Poster: A snowHead
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Heavy snow transformed the fire-blackened landscape in Victoria's east into a brilliant white. Just days after fearing deadly fires would destroy their mountain, residents of Mt Buller, northeast of Melbourne, were hurling snowballs at each other. As much as 30mm of snow fell at Mt Baw Baw overnight....
Adelaide shivered through its coldest Christmas Day in 13 years. And Hobart hasn't had a Christmas quite as cold in more than two decades.
And the weather was amiss in Sydney, too, where the traditional backpacker pilgrimage to Bondi was subdued - only about 10,000 of the usual 40,000 plonked themselves down on the famous stretch - because of the cooler temperatures and the early-morning drizzle.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,20974869-948,00.html
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=28&ContentID=17092
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Some of my friends celebrated a white Christmas (remember that it's mid summer in Australlia), but they were more relieved that most of the fires were out.
Sadly a lot of mountain huts were burnt, both the touristy ones like Craig's Hut http://www.kosciuskohuts.org.au/Hut%20Profiles%20VIC/Profile%20Craigs.html and the remote refuges days from the nearest road like Gantner. http://www.kosciuskohuts.org.au/Hut%20Profiles%20VIC/Profile%20Gantner.html
After the last fires the bureaucrats only allowed 10% of the burnt mountain huts to be rebuilt, as huts allegedly "reduce the wilderness quality of the High Country". The fact that they also save a lot of lives doesn't seem to worry them. But I suppose they work in nicely heated city office blocks, so they have never been stuck out in a two week long blizzard! *Rant Ends*
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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kerekip, I was in Sydney over Christmas and New Year. I thought the weather was rather pleasant being in the mid 20's but the locals thought it was cold - last year at the same time the temp was in the 40's.
The weather seems a bit back to front this year.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I think this is salutary. It's unseasonably warm in the Alps for a month or two and some people straight away shout "it's global warming in action".
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Amazing pictures, makes you wonder, how on earth they are going to get these fires out.
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laundryman, maybe it is?!
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Well the latest news is that the fires have now burnt a million hectares (two and a half million acres) of tall montane forest (250 ft high eucalypts), cool temperate rainforest and alpine heathland in Victoria. Today has had cooler weather in low 20's at sea level (so under 10 degrees in the mountains). This has slowed the fires, but they are still burning on many fronts. They are expected to flare up again when it gets hot in a few days 
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