Re: Re: CULT: Aussie spring

Linda

Given that Australia is much the same size as USA, we have a very diverse
range of climates. The far north coastal areas would be very similar to
Florida and coming down the eastern seaboard would be like going up your
eastern seaboard stopping short of NY. Once you get as far south of Sydney
the rainfall starts to change from summer rain to mainly winter rain. Just
inland along almost all of the east coast is a massive range of mounains
with much colder climate and in the Southern half ski resorts etc. Inland
from the mountains is much flatter and dryer. Southern Victoria and over the
water in Tasmania have cool-cold damp climates with winter rains.
South Australia and much of Victoria has has a very mediterarian climate,
hot dry summers and cool-cold wet winters. We get frosts in winter (very
rarely snow), this winter much of the time our daytime max barely made 10oC.
But in summer it will occassionally make 40oC but mostly Jan would be around
28-35oC max. We are in a cooler part of SA. Where Jan is in south central
Vic is a bit colder in winter. Our rainfall is about 750mm, mostly in winter
May-Sept.
Most of central Aust is very dry, much of it desert, which extends into much
of Western Australia.

I've attached an Australian rainfall map, showing total rainfall for the
last 3 years. If you want to know where I live. It's in the dark lime green
patch of the south central state (South Australia) just above and to the
right of the island (Kangaroo Island)

Hope this helps

Colleen Modra
Adelaide Hills
South Australia  Zone 8/9

colleen@impressiveirises.com.au
www.impressiveirises.com.au



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 9:10 AM
Subject: [iris] Re: CULT: Aussie spring


> AUSSIE SPRING sounds like a good name for an iris...
>
> Jan, how wet is wet?  I am struggling with the concept of it being cool
> and rainy.  Didn't know you ever had that kind of weather anywhere in
> Oz.
>
> <Cheers, Jan in southern, very wet, Victoria >
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