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Sydney sploshes through a cold, wet summer
Feb 1, 2012, 3:42 GMT
Sydney - Microsoft founder Bill Gates and other A-listers were in jumpers and raincoats rather than shorts and beach shoes during their Christmas holidays in Sydney.
The Weather Channel said Wednesday that Australia's biggest city had its coldest December in more than half a century and its coldest and wettest January in over a decade.
January had just one day when the temperature reached 30 degrees.
Weather Channel forecaster Tom Saunders said Sydney was 'on track to record one of its coldest summers in recent decades.'
The Gates family got fed up with Sydney's weather and, like many of the locals, flew up to Queensland for a bit of southern hemisphere summer comfort.
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