Doesn’t happen very often, being Summer in December, but there was a white Christmas this year in Australia. On the Snowy Mountains in Victoria and NSW, and on Mount Wellington in Tasmania it snowed on Christmas eve, which was much welcomed by the fire fighters battling bushfires.
References:
- Australia feels four seasons this Xmas (SMH, 25 Dec 2006)
- Firefighters celebrate a white Christmas (The Age, 25 Dec 2006)
- A sunburnt, snowed-in country (SMH, 25 Dec 2006)
- Aussies celebrate white Christmas (ABC, 25 Dec 2006)
- Victoria’s white Christmas (SMH, 25 Dec 2006)
- Blizzards and bushfires as the weather turns flaky (SMH, 16 Nov 2006)
- Summer: let it snow, let it blow, let it glow (SMH, 26 Dec 2006)
- Tasmanians enjoy white Christmas (ABC, 26 Dev 2006)