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Faarrrrk, those goddamn seabreezes still hard at work. Looking at the obs, the city station is the coldest lol.
Looks like the polar outbreak had been cancelled for us, temps next week now forecast in the mid 30's.
I've always wondered: why is northern Australia so sparsely populated compared to southeastern Australia? I mean all that's up there is Darwin and that's pretty much it. All of Australia's main cities are in the south. Even Brisbane seems closer to the south coast than it is to the north coast. Why is this?
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I wish it was high 20s or low 30s here too, but you know, in Fahrenheit.
If you have a couple days off, make the 500 mile drive north up I-95 to Savannah Monday night and you'll get to experience it.
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I've always wondered: why is northern Australia so sparsely populated compared to southeastern Australia? I mean all that's up there is Darwin and that's pretty much it. All of Australia's main cities are in the south. Even Brisbane seems closer to the south coast than it is to the north coast. Why is this?
If you have a couple days off, make the 500 mile drive north up I-95 to Savannah Monday night and you'll get to experience it.
Australia was settled by the British. The ancestors to the polar anti-summer foamers on Netweather and the Australian Weather Forum. Anything above 25C was a death sentence then just like it is now.
So sad that there are no big cities in the NW, where Broome, Wyndham, Port Hedland and the like are. I like to imagine a big city on the shores of Lake Argyle (a dam with spectacular scenery) but sadly no such luck.
Australia was settled by the British. The ancestors to the polar anti-summer foamers on Netweather and the Australian Weather Forum. Anything above 25C was a death sentence then just like it is now.
So sad that there are no big cities in the NW, where Broome, Wyndham, Port Hedland and the like are. I like to imagine a big city on the shores of Lake Argyle (a dam with spectacular scenery) but sadly no such luck.
They would probably hate living in the southeastern US too. A good 4 months of the year is between 32-35 C with dewpoints around 24 C. Interestingly enough, many of the descendants of Georgia and South Carolina came from Ireland, an area that doesn't see weather like that. Savannah even has a large St Patrick's Day parade. There are a lot of Irish descended people around here. German descendants too.
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I've always wondered: why is northern Australia so sparsely populated compared to southeastern Australia? I mean all that's up there is Darwin and that's pretty much it. All of Australia's main cities are in the south. Even Brisbane seems closer to the south coast than it is to the north coast. Why is this?.
I'd guess is it was easier to grow crops that Europeans were familiar with in the south coast.
I've always wondered: why is northern Australia so sparsely populated compared to southeastern Australia? I mean all that's up there is Darwin and that's pretty much it. All of Australia's main cities are in the south. Even Brisbane seems closer to the south coast than it is to the north coast. Why is this?
Before modern medicine, malaria vaccines, antibiotics and air conditioning, tropical climates were as hostile as polar climates. Death traps. Poor soil, bad climate just filled with dangerous diseases, snakes, you name it. Europeans had no ways of dealing with the inhospitable environment. Therefore the cooler, more familiar climate in Southern Australia was definitely preferred. Europeans knew that they'll die like flies in jungles due to malaria and sleeping sickness.
For example, in 1880 Florida had 270k inhabitants, Maine 650k.
Part of that is historical from how the US was settled, Louisiana had 940k people, but yes climate was a factor in Florida's late population growth.
Before modern medicine, tropical climates were rather hostile, but far, far more people lived in tropical climate than polar climates. India has always had a huge population, for example.
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This one is impressive though, as SA are at home.
