Being in the Southern hemisphere, Australia is entering their spring and it is the beginning of their growing season.
From the Australian Broadcast Corporation's ABC Rural:
Severe frosts damage grain crops in south-east Australia
Widespread, severe frosts across South-East Australia are having an unprecedented effect on grain crops.
It's not uncommon to grain growers to get frosts during winter in the region, but the severity of the frosts and the subsequent damage have surprised many.
Senior researcher at the CSIRO's agriculture flagship, James Hunt, says it's hard to assess the damage of such an unusual event.
Some more - this is not an isolated weather phenomenon:
Rowan Brill a research and development agronomist from the Department of Primary Industries, based in Wagga, said everyone was caught by surprise.
"But it is very hard to tell how widespread the damage is or how much of the crop has been wiped out. "And the reason the damage is turning out to be so common is the way large areas were hit with record low temperatures."
"Overnight lows in a number of regions saw temperatures so low we would only see them once in one hundred years."
As the cooling continues. I wonder how long we will have to wait for people to realize that the computer models are simply not showing any relationship to the observed data.
