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Tasmania has a cool temperate climate with four distinct seasons. The highest recorded maximum temperature in Tasmania is 42.2 °C (108.0 °F) at Scamander on 30 January 2009, during the 2009 southeastern Australia heat wave. Tasmania's lowest recorded minimum temperature is −14.2 °C (6.4 °F) on 7 August 2020, at Central Plateau. [1]
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Autumn is a season of transition, and generally has the most settled weather patterns, although Launceston's worst floods both occurred in Autumn. City minimums range from 5.1 °C (41 °F) in May, and up to 10.0 °C (50 °F) in March. High temperatures during Autumn range from 15.8 °C (60 °F) in May up to 22.4 °C (72 °F) in March. [7]
The Tasmanian devil became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in 1936, and is now found in the wild only in Tasmania. Tasmania was one of the last regions of Australia to be introduced to domesticated dogs. Dogs were brought from Britain in 1803 for hunting kangaroos and emus. This ...
The transition to polarimetric (dual-polarised) radars began in 2017 with the upgrade of 4 Meteor 1500 radars located in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Sydney. [7] The network has further been enhanced through the installation of 8 new polarimetric Meteor 735 radars across WA, [8] NSW [9] & Victoria, [10] and two polarimetric WRM200 radars [11] manufactured by Vaisala, one to replace the ...
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Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands were connected to Australia during the ice ages when sea levels were lower, and shared a marsupial mammal fauna. The largest carnivores were the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), which was hunted to extinction by the early 20th century, and the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). Both the thylacine ...
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