As a Modern climate write up conclude this workweek , our planet isdefinitely sire warmer , which leads to more extreme temperatures around the world . Now Australia is seeing its coldest temperature in decade , and last night , many Australians saw coke for the first time in their animation .
Kangaroo in the snow : Uncommon pic from wintry Australian stormhttp://t.co/NOJeeXNUu4pic.twitter.com/UXpvIucDKL
— Mercury News ( @mercnews)July 17 , 2015
Queensland : the snowshine country . Gallery : http://t.co / kNBqizcQFy(Pic : Josie Carter)pic.twitter.com / WVXXNUuNY6
— The Australian ( @australian)July 17 , 2015
Residents of the Granite Belt have wake to white wintertime wonderland . 8 cm of snow has fallenhttp://t.co/QvPY5BGOIYpic.twitter.com/FyNhi03c8Z
— Kim Stephens ( @_MicrowaveJenny)July 16 , 2015
The local Bureau of Meteorology soothsayer Gorrdon Bankstold The Guardianthat they actually did n’t jazz how much fall down because they do n’t have any equipment on hand to measure snow :
“ We do n’t actually value 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 did n’t really have any official observation that snow was recorded , just reports from the public and just from the imagination , I believe we can say it was in the range of 2 to 5 atomic number 96 [ one to two inch ] . ”
The last time the area see mensurable snowfall was in 1984 , so many citizenry were project snow for the first time ever , include this reporter :
Australia has project heap of weather extremes recently , experiencing its owndecade - retentive droughtfollowed by years of implosion therapy — all of which scientist have attributed to clime alteration due to rising carbon emission . Yet still the nation ’s prime minister carry on toblock renewable Department of Energy programs .
[ The Guardian ]
A snowman in Katoomba , Australia , photograph byBrett Hemmings/ Getty Images
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