The climate of Australia is the seasonal changes that happen during summer and winter. The weather of Australia is the day-to-day status which is weather varies. The weather includes information such as temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind direction, speed and air pressure. Australia has a variety of climates but the feature that stands out the most is the dryness of Australia. The climatic zones of rainfall in Australia is very low and also not very reliable in central Australia. Two-thirds of Australia's land surface is classified as desert or semi-desert. Majority of inland areas of Australia have an average of less than 250 millimetres of rainfall a year. Northern Australia is in the tropics and has warm to hot temperatures across the year. Southern Australia has cooler temperatures, mainly in Tasmania and in the Snowy Mountains. Differences between summer and winter change in climate results. Northern Australia in summer gets very heavy rainfall, sometimes in the form of thunderstorm activity from low pressure systems. Southern Australia is mainly dry and has mild
to warm temperatures. Northern Australia in winter has fine, sunny and warm conditions whilst southern Australia has very cool, wet winters with light misty rain and in eastern Australia the climate is normally wetter all year than the western part of the continent, which is effected by the stable high pressure systems.
to warm temperatures. Northern Australia in winter has fine, sunny and warm conditions whilst southern Australia has very cool, wet winters with light misty rain and in eastern Australia the climate is normally wetter all year than the western part of the continent, which is effected by the stable high pressure systems.