In the final days of 2008, residents of Australia’s southeast might have been forgiven for thinking summer had finished early. On the island state of Tasmania in the far south, freezing gales blew, blanketing mountains with snow. In the state of Victoria, in the southeastern corner of the mainland, the number of sunny hours a day dropped from the normal 8.3 to a mere seven. “Where has our summer gone,” moaned a newspaper report, while some readers commented that it made you wonder if global warming was real.
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