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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
  • @[email protected]
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    Pretty wild that you can drive a short distance northwest and go from a Finland climate to a Louisiana one.

    • @WhatAmLemmy
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      7 months ago

      ((Altitude))

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

      • ZagorathOP
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        67 months 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.

        • tau
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          67 months 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).

        • @WhatAmLemmy
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          27 months ago

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

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

      No.

      Just no.

      • gila
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        37 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]
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    127 months ago

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

    • @SomeGuy69
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      57 months ago

      England never hits the 40s

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

    • @trolololol
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      17 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]
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    67 months 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.

    • @CptEnder
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      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.

  • @friend_of_satan
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    67 months ago

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

    • @aeronmelon
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      57 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.

    • ZagorathOP
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      07 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    27 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.

    • @CptEnder
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      27 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.