In January, is it winter in Australia

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, summer and winter are reversed in the southern hemisphere.

  But more than that: the seasons aren’t even consistent across each hemisphere—the exact beginning and ending dates of each season vary from region to region depending on the local climate.

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  • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The concept for 4 seasons itself is very Eurocentric, and leads to the inaccurate belief that the seasons/climate is messy and unpredictable in Australia.

    The native aboriginal peoples have their own season system for each region, which much more accurately describes the weather. For example, the aboriginal calendar identifies 6 seasons in Victoria.

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    • Signfeld@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s actually really interesting, I had no idea. Do you have a link with the page to that image? It got jpeg’d and I’d like to read more.

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As an example, where I live near the equator we have seasons that are only a few weeks long. We alternate between “summer” and “winter”. The quotes are because the only real difference in our seasons is how much rain falls since neither the temperature nor the amount of daylight changes much. Winter seasons are cloudy and wet and summer seasons are sunny and dry.

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  • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah if you think about it the idea of 4 seasons permeating culture has more to do with European colonization than anything scientific.

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  • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, here in Austria we get about a day of skiing less per year since the 2000s.

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also, for the northern hemisphere people, yes, Australia has snow.

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yup we’re in the middle of winter as we speak.

  The season names relate to the weather, not the period of year. It would be odd to have a spring be when all the leaves are falling off the trees.

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  • DSkou7@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So March is just eels?

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    • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fuckin EELS

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    • blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The river eels are considered ‘trash fish’ to some here but they’re delicious, tastes just like Japanese eels. They’re just a bit of a pain to skin and prepare.

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  • Contentedness@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shout out the Merri Creek!

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  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The wattles are thick with buds that will be blooming soon. That means trout fishing time!

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• ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I live in Brazil, we call cold season winter, hot season summer :). January is summer.

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  • neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a scandinavian who has worked in Brazil for two years I can confirm that Brazilians do in fact call two identical seasons differently based on whether it’s closer to Christmas. I usually worked the night shift, and in July-ish, my Brazilian coworker usually wore a hat while on the backdeck while I was sweating like a hog.

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    • ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That depends on where in Brazil you are, but yes,in the north (near the equator), winter is as hot as summer, and spring/autumm are the warmest seasons.

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    • AdNecrias@lemmy.pt ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s rain season, not cold one =)

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• DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No - it’s definitely Christmas in summer in Australia. But somehow my dear old Gran never got the memo, and insisted on making us sit down and sweat through a full roast Christmas lunch each year, sometimes in 40°C+ heat.

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  • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    An Aussie friend from a forum I was on ages ago posted a video of his family’s Christmas tree, and it blew my mind that they decorated it with snowmen and snowflakes and shit. They had a fire going, a big ass turkey or some such (baby emu?) on the table. Whole freaking classic Christmas affair.

    Why? Why do you do this? If it flipped somehow, and Christmas now came during summer here in the US, I’d be decorating the tree with flip flops (thongs?) and sunglasses, and having mojitos with a light salad for dinner lol

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    • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, now I have my own family and we do our own Christmas, it’s shorts, thongs, BBQ, seafood and beer.

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve never seen that in my whole life.

      A roast for dinner sure, but never a fucking fire.

      And lunch has always been cold seafood sitting out in the sun smashing beers.

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    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      White Wine in the Sun is a Christmas song by Tim Minchin

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• kambusha@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t comment on Australia, but South America calls Jan summer, and July winter.

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  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What about the other months

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    • kambusha@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Chaos reigns

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• ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m in two places:

  • In Australia

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  • in tears!! XD

  ‘But do Australians call it “winter” in January and “summer” in July?’ !!!

  • For future reference, every country on the planet calls the cold time of year - Winter, and the hot time of year - Summer.

  Except countries near the equator(halfway between the top and bottom of a world map), equatorial countries are hot all year and have a wet-season and a dry-season.

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• Cringedrif@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So right now the summer Olympics are taking place in winter…

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  • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, they’re taking place in Paris

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except for the surfing, which is taking place in Tahiti. 'Course it’s not really “winter” there because it’s tropical, but still, it’s at the same latitude as parts of Australia.

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• Kelly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And given that, most of the population lives in northern hemisphere, is there a body of dad jokes and culture tropes related to the fact that “we’re different”, or is it just too cringe and boring.

  Nothing anyone wound mention but there are some ironic Christmas clothing like a shirt with Father Christmas with sunglasses and cooking a barbeque, or a rashie with a knitted sweater pattern.

  We are also aware that if a foreign studio announces a game or movie with a season for their release window they probably mean the northern season. Our studios tend to just use a month instead.

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  • Knuschberkeks@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    spending christmas in australia or new zealand has been one of my top bucket list items for decades.

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    • CopernicusQwark@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My friends who grew up outside Oz find it weird that to me “it ain’t Christmas unless it’s scorching hot”. To me the idea of having a cold Christmas is the odd one.

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• Omgboom@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol Australia isn’t a real place

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