No you don't get it.
There are two Australias.
The east coast consisting of Queensland [Brisbane] to New South Wales
[Sydney] and then Victoria [Melbourne]
The 'national' news always covers their weather.
And then there is the rest of Australia west of the Great Divide that
the east coast cares nothing for.
The weather generally here moves from west to east.
So when Adelaide South Australia has scorching devastating heat
waves we never get a mention.
But when this weather moves on eastward into Victoria and those
poor Melbournites get fried then you will get national alerts and warnings;
oh woe is us. Prepare for catastrophic conditions.
No mention of Adelaide.
So if Sydney swelters under 40+ degrees C no one west cares.
It just us and them.
This sounds exactly like Canada. Except the Great Divide is not the dividing line, but northern Ontario. So, when central Canada, is hot, cold, snowy, rainy etc, it is news, not weather. The prairies can be -40 but it doesn’t get mentioned. When the east has weather issues, Trudeau rolls out the dough to make it better. When half of BC burns down with forest fires, or the town of Fort McMurray evacuates 100,000 people, and half the town burns down, he says, “Donate the Red Cross”. Sorry, you didn’t vote Liberal, you get no money.
To think I saw this headline, and I was thinking a heat wave was +6 C or 44F, like we had a few days ago. But really, today it was -1C/30F. Where we lived in Alberta, it was -34C/-30F today. So the difference between an hour plane ride, is 33C or 60F.
So, to think of how cold -34C/-30F is, think about 0C/32F. That is the point at whch water freezes, and snow stays. Now, the difference between that and Edmonton, if you go up, means 34C, a fairly hot day, although not as hot as Australia. Or 92F, time to put on the A/C. Between 2 provinces. And glad I have moved from the place that is so cold, all winter long!