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Indeed. In Oz, there are only two places: (a) Sydney; and (b) Others.

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Monday for the second day of the Championship match and were astonished to see an inch of snow covering the ground. The cause, according to the Meteorological Office, had been a depression moving down from the Arctic, bringing very cold air with it. Table 3, below, is a summary of the 1975 summer.

Table 3: A report explaining the geographical factors behind the snow in June 1975 (www.netweather.tv)
Conditions had been miserably cold through much of May 1975, and when June arrived a northerly blast of Arctic air brought a biting frost across Scotland. Early on June 2 the thermometer at Gleneagles, Perthshire, sank to 3.3oC (26oF), a temperature more likely in the depths of winter than early summer. The cold air swept into England and snow fell as far south as East Anglia and London, with sleet reaching Portsmouth. Although the snow quickly melted in the South, it settled on the ground further north.

Famously, snow stopped play at a county cricket match between Derbyshire and Lancashire in Buxton, where snow reached an inch deep. Snow also delayed play between Essex and Kent at Colchester, accompanied by midday temperatures of 2oC (36oF), and John Arlott reported snow at a cricket match at Lord's. The cold snap lasted a while, with snow lying on the ground for four days in parts of Scotland. But on June 6 the British weather lived up to its fickle reputation, when a heatwave sent temperatures soaring in northeast Scotland to 25oC (77oF). A gloriously hot summer across Britain followed.

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Remember just before the Olympics last year when it was raining dragons?