He flew south in February. The data said Cairns: 31°C, heavy rain. But rain in the tropics wasn't the drizzle of Oslo. It was a curtain of water, so loud you couldn't hear yourself think. He watched a cane toad float past a pub’s beer garden. February was the month the sea turned into a bath and the cassowaries hid in the jungle, waiting for the sun to remember its job.

April in Sydney was a lie the search engine couldn't capture. "Average: 22°C," it said. But on the fourth, a southerly buster came screaming up the coast, dropping the temperature from 27 to 17 in twenty minutes. He shivered in a Bondi beach café, watching teenagers in hoodies pretend they were freezing to death. April was the month of coats-and-thongs—a fashion of pure confusion.

Australia has a temperature by hour, by valley, by wind direction, by whether the ants are building their mounds high or low.

Massive temperature swings. Summer can be a scorching 40°C , while Winter nights can drop to -2°C .

Summer in Australia is characterized by hot days, outdoor cricket, and beach culture. However, this is also the "Wet Season" in the north.

Liam, a data scientist from Oslo, had landed in Darwin on the first of January. He had come for a conference, but really, he had come to see if the numbers matched the myth. His phone buzzed with the query he had searched a hundred times before: australia temperature by month .

A transition to milder, pleasant weather.