This is Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchel to New South Wales.

Jeremy Zach is reporting. It's wintertime, down under. And that means snow, if it was New England,

is there snow in Australia? There's everything to create snow. They've got the Antarctic weather.

They've got the Indian Ocean weather, and they have

elevated parts of the continent, mountainous. However, Jeremy, a very good day to you. I read in your

weather report that the snow is expected to be heavy this winter. You, however, are in New South Wales where it's said to be raining.

Is this ordinary weather or something unusual coming this early in June? Good day to you.

Gidey John. Yes, that's right. We've got snow in some parts, especially the elevated regions,

and rain down here. And I can say that this is kind of semi-normal, especially the elevated regions, and rain down here.

And I can say that this is kind of semi-normal.

And the semi-part is that it's actually occurring maybe even a little bit early than we expected and a little bit harder because normally what happens here in Australia,

we kind of get a slow run into the snow season, into the winter.

So really across from probably about mid-May through maybe to mid-June, so about a week from now,

we get a slow start to winter.

It starts getting cold.

We start getting rain.

And then the snow starts to come into the higher regions.

So we're talking about the blue mountains just to the west of here or down in

Victoria in alpine regions a lot further south. But what has happened is that in the last week,

especially, we've suddenly got rain and snow and Antarctic conditions all at once, all in the space

of maybe two or three days. And to go with it, we've got the very, very low

temperatures. So we're talking about sub 50 degrees Fahrenheit, which is in single digits here. So most

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