"Ballarat is around double the height above sea level, and it's further south than Bendigo. So, we might expect its temperatures to be cooler,"he said.
"You do get to a point around September where you feel like you're never going to be warmed again. I think the problem is not that it is so cold. It's that the cold lasts for so long."
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