Australian summer
Southern hemisphere heat
Australian summer runs from December through February, the inverse of the Northern Hemisphere.
It brings extreme heat, bushfire season, and the Christmas-New Year holiday period spent outdoors—beaches, barbecues, cricket matches.
The phrase often evokes both the appeal of warm coastal holidays and the danger of severe fire weather: We're heading to Sydney for the Australian summer.
- beachSandy waterside margin
- day at the beachRecreational coastal visit
- heatwaveProlonged abnormally high temperatures
- bushfireUncontrolled wildland blaze
- cricketChirping legged insect
Boxing Day Test · backyard cricket · barbecue · meat pies · hot chips · sunburn · thongs · ute · outback · drought · cicadas · pavlova · Boxing Day · eucalyptus · magpies · scorching · flies · sunscreen
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