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CBS I and the world. I'm John Bachelor to New South Wales, Sydney. My colleague Jeremy Zachus is reporting on the continent that is on the edge of springtime, the southern hemisphere.

Jeremy, a very good day to you in Sydney.

We begin with your weather. It does not look like springtime. I'm looking at a

continent. Half of it is blue and icy. Half of it is red and torid. Is this normal? Am I getting used to Australian weather because it sure

looks like nobody told the weather that is springtime. Good evening to you.

Gidde, John, No, this is really not that normal in fact. Right now we should be talking about really, really warm weather and we're just not. So what's happening again is we're getting a very very cold Antarctic blast and that's kind of cycling through Australia more and more Prevolently here towards the end of winter so over this past week once again we've started going down to temperatures that a sub-zero is in

degree Celsius so talking around about 30 degrees Fahrenheit and it is absolutely windy and in some places very very rainy but the kicker is

John that if you go to the north of Australia that actually getting summer

temperatures right now so these are temperatures around about 40 degrees Celsius, so 110 Fahrenheit, and really, really sustained heat.

So Australia is all over the place right now, to be honest in, and while we are coming into spring and should be getting some kind of warmth and at least most of our landscape, it's just not happening yet.

Canberra to Melbourne to Adelaide, that describes a triangle very chilly have they had snow

They have had snow in fact I can report that overnight we did get snow and some about our alpine areas we call it so these

are the northern mountains in Victoria where they had snow in places like

Threadbo and even as far as just south of Canberra So snow has come back and you may remember John it was only a couple of weeks ago we were saying

that the snow season had to end early because of the the combination of warmth and

and wind and a bit of rain pretty much washed out our ski slopes.

Well, it turns out two weeks later, they've actually had snow once again, and it's all back on the ground

so while they won't reopen the ski slopes theoretically if you wanted to go skiing today you probably actually could.

It is springtime and therefore there is much activity. First we'll check on the blooms. What is blooming in your area in Sydney

given the cold? Well John it's primarily the cherry blossom so those white flowers from Japan, they are out in

absolute force right now. And what happened was last week when there was just

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