This question addresses comments made about the stupid questions asked by Americans about Australia. Yes, it's true; the U.S. has more stupid people than any other country!
2007-08-20 09:13:44 · 7 answers · asked by marczo1 2 in Travel ➔ Australia ➔ Other - Australia
This question addresses comments made about the stupid questions asked by Americans about Australia. Yes, it's true; the U.S. has more stupid people than any other country!
2007-08-20 10:00:55 · update #1
Yes, I'm an American!
2007-08-20 10:11:42 · update #2
You have to look at where the air is coming from. Northwesterly winds ahead of fronts in summer come from the hot interior producing temperatures in the high 30s and even 40s with the danger of bushfires. After the front goes through, the southwesterly winds bring air from the Southern Ocean which is cool and beings much lower temperatures to Canberra. Occasionally a southerly is deep enough to produce snow on the Snowy Mountains to the south of Canberra and Black Mountain, overlooking Canberra, has recorded snow in every month although summer snow is rare.
2007-08-20 12:52:47 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Canberra resident since 1990 I know that it can get "chilly" in summer. There was even the legendary time when there was snow in December, though that was before I arrived. I have an idea that it was mostly a myth. Canberra is higher than most other cities in the country so we do get fairly rapid weather changes and it nearly always does get cool at night.
As for Americans, those that do manage to make it to Australia are usually the more clued up ones. I'm on a Yahoo group which has people from all over, mostly the US though, (Alabama, California, Georgia, Vermont but also Paraguay which is not in the USA but it is American (!)) nearly all adults and it happens that many of them know a fair bit about Australia in general. A few have even been here.
It's true that others don't know much about what goes on outside their own country. My observation is that you get a lot of kids on this site and their knowledge of the world isn't that of a 30 or 50 year old.
Edit. The whole world does not dream of coming to America.
2007-08-20 09:54:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Perufamily - if this is a question from the website I'm thinking of - this is an ACTUAL question asked by an American. It is highly amusing.
Americans aren't stupid - they're just...a little more ignorant of other people and countries, than anyone else seems to be.
PS - the "whole world" is a big place, and does not consist of Mexico. I sincerely doubt that the "whole world" dreams of being in America. Some of us actually have free health care and earn a lot more than a $pittance an hour.
2007-08-20 10:08:37 · answer #3 · answered by allusian_fields 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason that the temperature getss cold in the summer is only because the politians aren't there at certain times. At the moment there is plans to use all the hot air that comes from politicians, so that the city can be warm all the year round.
2007-08-20 10:52:28 · answer #4 · answered by malroymck 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if your looking for an answer it is because it isn't their summer it is their winter because australia is in the southern hemisphere.
If your trying to make a point about how people can ask such trivial and idiotic questions I quite agree.
(I'm English)
2007-08-20 09:20:52 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wouldn't want to live in america even if you paid me
Canberra is chilly because of where it is
unlike most people think not all of australia is hot all the time
2007-08-20 13:35:38 · answer #6 · answered by tuppenybitz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny, the whole world dreams of coming to America, dies t come to America, even willing to go to jail to come here and yet they insult us!!
2007-08-20 09:52:50 · answer #7 · answered by perufamily7 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋