Jeff Masters says that above normal precipitation and snowfall is caused by unusually warm air.
Cool February ends cold, wet summer
March 04, 2008 12:00AMSYDNEY has had its first summer in 50 years without a day above 31C, with rainfall 40 per cent above average.
The summer of 2007-08 was colder and wetter than average over much of the country, with a particularly cool February, according to Blair Trewin of the National Climate Centre.
“Daytime maximum temperatures in February for Australia were the seventh-coolest on record,” he said.
NSW had the second-lowest average daytime maximum temperature on record – figures have been compiled since 1950 – and Sydney received 422mm of rainfall, compared with an average of 298mm.
Snow in Florida must require extremely warm air!








