This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor to New South Wales, Jeremy

Zachus. The Southern Hemisphere. As the Northern Hemisphere, New England with weather, approaches the first day of summer, the longest

day of the year, with good spring weather on the eve of the eve of the eve of summertime. The southern hemisphere leaves fall and enters

winter. Jeremy Zachus is in the winds that come from the Indian Ocean, the winds that come from the

tropics down the Queensland, and the winds that come from Antarctica. So it's all new to me to learn what a winter is like in New South

Wales in Victoria in Adelaide. Jeremy a very good day to you your meteorologist

puts it this way.

Chilly weekend ahead for southern states as cold snap continues.

What is a cold snap in New South Wales?

Good day to you.

Gidde, John, well it is, it's horrendous really. It is, as it sounds, it is literally cold weather that

just suddenly comes upon you almost in an instant and to give you some I guess an aspect on this back on

Wednesday so only a few days ago we had reasonably nice weather so we're talking around

the mid-60s Fahrenheit and it was clear there was a little bit of rain around but it was

actually quite warm but then we got the cold snap so on Thursday almost instantly

overnight we suddenly went from having mid-60 temperatures during the day to only getting around about 40 45 degrees

Fahrenheit so really really cold and to make it worse we had heavy winds coming up from the south

So if you imagine the map of Australia and look directly

stuff we have Antarctica. Those winds from Antarctica when they make it all the way to Australia,

which they do in many many sort of weather systems, which is what we have right now,

they create this cold snap situation. We're basically getting those cold Antarctic winds,

hitting us here in Australia and making it absolutely freezing and unbearable.

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