I'm not sure whats worse, having tornado warnings and storms that can distory your house or just being cold up here in B.C.

We get the "canada is coverd in snow 9 months of the year and we live in igloos thing". We had like 4 days of snow last year and it was only about 5cm thick. Its chili here right now, about -2 in the morning 4 in the afternoon and back to -2 at night. However, there is not a cloud in the sky which kind of looks like a cold summer.

It rains like crazy during the rainy seasons and is depressing as hell. I guess it isen't that bad, no earth quakes, Storms, Tornado's or Volcanoes. The only scary thing is that Richmond is an island which is surrounded by a Dyke. This means that I live below the waterline and if there was a major earthquake or something, we would flood,sink and die. Until then we got some kick arse Mountains 45mins from here!

I would love to visit Australia someday, beautiful landscape and waters I hear. Can anyone discribe the weather there in winter?