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“Snow? Darling,” she laughed, handing him a bottle of sunscreen. “Welcome to Australia. July is our winter. But our ‘cold’ means you might need a light jacket at night.”

When Liam moved from snowy Chicago to sunny Brisbane in July, he packed his thickest coat, woolly hats, and snow boots. season months australia

felt strange. The heat finally broke, leaves turned rusty red and orange—but not on oaks. On eucalypts . And instead of a slow, sad end, it was a harvest. Apples, pumpkins, and walnuts filled the markets. “This is our autumn,” Aunt Chloe said. “We’re saying goodbye to heat, not to light.” “Snow

By , Liam had been there a full year. He sat by a crackling outdoor fireplace, wrapped in a hoodie, watching the Southern Cross glow in the clear, cold sky. It was winter. No snow, just crisp mornings, mist over the mountains, and the shortest day of the year. July is our winter

For Liam, everything was upside down.

arrived, and he waited for the crisp autumn leaves to fall. Instead, jasmine vines exploded with white flowers, magpies swooped in the park, and the air smelled of wet earth. “This is spring,” Aunt Chloe explained, planting tomatoes. “Time for new life, not decay.”

came. Back home, it would be Christmas snowmen and hot cocoa. Here, he wore board shorts, grilled prawns on the beach, and a man in a Santa hat rode a surfboard past him. “Happy Christmas, mate!” people yelled under a scorching sun. It was summer. The jacaranda trees were blooming purple, and the days stretched hot and lazy until February.