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Actually the title is right, there are Australian alps in the South east of Australia that gets snow like this

Is that an Australian snow gum? I don’t know doo dah about Australian trees, but that sheds bark like a madrone. Pretty cool!

Austria doesn't have gum trees like these

That's why the whole country burns so easily....gum trees shed bark and leaves all year round so there's a mass of dry tinder (plus the eucalyptus oils themselves are incendiary lol)

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Love!!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a picture of snow in Australia

Dumb but serious questions: Isn’t the Alps mountain range in Europe? Is this just another mountain range with the same name?

Lots of Mountain ranges in the world are called "Alps"

It's a shortening of 'Alpine', and is used to describe lots of Alpine regions. For Australia, what counts as the 'Alps' is generally the parts of the Great Dividing Range that get yearly snow.

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the trees are meant to regularly burn, some seeds don't release from nuts without heat. that said, global warming is permanently fucking shit up and the landscape is burning more for longer and will not recover as it used to :/

are you kidding that's like saying the usa is just a big city and some farms >_>

Absolutely yes. And as you say, we are at the very pointy end of climate change anyway due to the traditional prevailing weather extremes, so any increase in world climate systems instability is going to be felt here before many other places.

Well you have now lol

I've only travelled down to see the snow once about almost 30 years ago, and its the most disconcerting feeling to see the tops of gum trees sticking out of the snow. Walking around and knowing logically you were 5+ metres off the ground is an utterly bizarre notion lol

The mountains on the border of NSW and Victoria get snow every year. Enough for a ski season and plants and animals that have evolved to live there. The trees in the picture are ... suprise! ... snowgums, which have the most glorious bark colours.

I’m assuming that the person you replied to confused Austria with Australia

For a hot second I thought this was a painting, nature is lit man

That sounds so cool.