Australian Climate
The Australian continent is able to experience a large vary of climates due to its large size. This is due the size of the continent although it mainly follows the main seasons of summer, autumn, winter and spring. This comes to affect most parts of the continent including the desert and grasslands climatic zones as well as the wet and dry pattern in the tropical north. The seasons described as the European seasons apply to the southern hemisphere in the following sequence
Summer- December to February
Autumn- March to May
Winter- June to August
Spring- September to November
climatic zones
Grassland (Savannah) - this area comes to surround the arid or semi-arid desert areas of the continent as it comes to seep into the northern area of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
Desert- arid or semi-arid area that is found in the center of the continent, this stretches across vast areas of South Australia and Western Australia, far south western Queensland and far north western corner of New South Wales, and not quite half of the Northern Territory.
Equatorial- the tip of Cape York, the area around Bathurst and the Melville Island found north of Darwin.
Tropical- the area spanning across areas of Northern Australia including Cape York, the top end of the Northern Territory as well as the area south of the Gulf of Carpentaria and the region of the Kimberley.
Sub-tropical- the coastal and edges of inland Cairns along the Queensland coast and hinterland to the northern area of New South Wales and lastly the coastal fringe of northern Perth to the Geraldton, Western Australia.
Summer- December to February
Autumn- March to May
Winter- June to August
Spring- September to November
climatic zones
Grassland (Savannah) - this area comes to surround the arid or semi-arid desert areas of the continent as it comes to seep into the northern area of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
Desert- arid or semi-arid area that is found in the center of the continent, this stretches across vast areas of South Australia and Western Australia, far south western Queensland and far north western corner of New South Wales, and not quite half of the Northern Territory.
Equatorial- the tip of Cape York, the area around Bathurst and the Melville Island found north of Darwin.
Tropical- the area spanning across areas of Northern Australia including Cape York, the top end of the Northern Territory as well as the area south of the Gulf of Carpentaria and the region of the Kimberley.
Sub-tropical- the coastal and edges of inland Cairns along the Queensland coast and hinterland to the northern area of New South Wales and lastly the coastal fringe of northern Perth to the Geraldton, Western Australia.
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