A Story To Cool You Off: Rare Australian Snow

A kangaroo bounces through the recent unusual
snow in Australia. 

 Its winter Down Under, which usually isn't the kind of cold, snowy hell or heaven (depending on your perspective) we go through here in New England.

But the relative warmth of an Australian winter was shattered earlier this week by a bunch of snow. Some areas received the biggest accumulations in decades. 

As The Independent tells us:

"A cold air front dropped as much as (16 inches) of snow on parts of northern New South Wales on Saturday the most since the mid-1980s, said Miriam Bradbury, a meteorologist at Australia's Bureau of Meteorology."

Bradbury said the storm was also odd because it covered an unusually large area.

It wasn't all fun and games.   At least 100 vehicles were stranded by snow, some buildings were damaged and power outages hit tens of thousands of homes. At lower elevations, heavy rain led to flooding, which killed at least one person.

Videos:

News video shows what it looked like. Kind of a typical December day here in New England, but for Australia, a new winter wonderland. Click on this link to view, or if you see the image below, click on that.