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I've been curious for a while about cities/towns in the Southern Hemisphere that have either recorded a subfreezing high in its history or perhaps at least a couple of times each winter. I know most of the Southern Hemisphere at the mid latitudes is quite mild but I'm wondering if any places actually get cold enough where a subfreezing high has been recorded before and if there are any statistics on that. Some places that seem like possible contenders include Southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, places like Rio Grande, Argentina, Ushuaia, Argentina and Punta Arenas, Chile. Any ideas of other possible locations and or statistics to back it up?
If you include the alpine villages in Australia then yes. There are permanent residents at some of them. There is one town in Tasmania, Liawenee, at 1057m which does record sub-zero highs, although doesnt appear to often as looking back through the observations, it occured only once in the last 12 months and that was -0.1C. NSW has a number of higher elevation towns (such as Orange, Katoomba, Cooma etc) which tend to record highs under 5C a number of times each winter, but none below 0C in the last year atleast, but I'd imagine there have been a few occurances going further back.
It's highly unlikely anywhere in Australia has recorded a sub-zero high closer to sea level.
If you include the alpine villages in Australia then yes. There are permanent residents at some of them. There is one town in Tasmania, Liawenee, at 1057m which does record sub-zero highs, although doesnt appear to often as looking back through the observations, it occured only once in the last 12 months and that was -0.1C. NSW has a number of higher elevation towns (such as Orange, Katoomba, Cooma etc) which tend to record highs under 5C a number of times each winter, but none below 0C in the last year atleast, but I'd imagine there have been a few occurances going further back.
It's highly unlikely anywhere in Australia has recorded a sub-zero high closer to sea level.
None of the above have recorded maximums below 0C.
Oberon, regarded as the coldest town in the state has recorded 0.0C,
Guyra at 1330 metres - in the NSW Northern or New England Tablelands - has recorded below 0C, ie -0.3C . Guyra climate, averages and extreme weather records
These are the only permanently inhabited towns that have recorded a max at or below 0C.
Places like Thredbo Top Station are not actually a town.
Guyra has similar winter temps to Canberra, but the latter doesn't seem to have recorded a sub-freezing high.
Many towns in central southern New Zealand have recorded highs below 0 C. Alexandra (45 S) seems to get them relatively frequently -- a quick look at some data shows several such occurences in recent years including three consecutive days with sub-zero highs in 2006. This town also averages 14 days over 30 C per year -- more than anywhere else in NZ, to my knowledge. It is our closest approximation of a continental climate.
That's only in the last 12 months though in Liawenee, Tasmania, at 1057m elevation. But it is not common to get highs below 0C there apparently, the coldest high temp on record is only -2C! This is at 1057m at 40°S!
If taking account smaller alpine villages in Victoria, such as Mt Hotham and Mt Bullar then yes, sub-zero highs occur every winter, but these stations are at around 1700m and only have a couple of hundred permanent residents. Coldest at Mt Buller this year was -3.7C and at Mt Hotham -4.1C.
The all time Australian record low temp is -23.0C at Charlotte Pass, the highest of any continent in the world, just ahead of a -23.9C at Iffrane, Morocco.
Australia is a very interesting place. I have a few cousins who live there. I think the very interior of Australia, in this case the Outback, is where subfreezing temperatures can occur. Can someone confirm? Thanks
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