At least one person has died as a result of record-breaking cold winters combined with flash floods.
On Thursday, Australians in the east of the country awakened to violent and icy winter conditions, with flash flooding claiming at least one life and huge snowfalls falling across New South Wales.
Temperatures in Sydney, Australia’s most populated city, fell to a 37-year low of 10°C thanks to cold air from the Antarctic.
“I’m sure we all want to get out and construct a snowman,” Kevin Beatty, the mayor of Cabonne Shire, one of the inland towns hit by the storm, told the ABC.
A low-pressure weather system followed, causing flooding in some places and at least one death in Victoria state.
Authorities asked 26,000 people in Traralgon, 161.9 kilometers west of Melbourne, to leave. The body of a guy was later discovered in a vehicle submerged in floodwaters, according to police.
