Nowhere in England is that far away compared to the USA and Australia - but be have some very weird weather with huge differences and only 100 miles or so apart. No snow here though so far, lots of rain but not quite cold enough for snow.
Pretty much the same here in southern Ont. Canada, huge differences in weather over relative short distances. Maybe ten years ago there was a major winter storm that totally crippled Toronto with 4 feet of accumulated snow, and that's not even counting blowing and drifting ... friends and acquaintances from all over the internet expressed concerns that I was OK, and I had a heck of a time convincing that even though I'm only about 65 miles (call it an even hundred km) west of there
and in the "snow belt", we only got a light dusting here.
Even much shorter distances can make big differences. Kitchener and Waterloo, while called twin cities, are for most purposes one continuous city, with only "Now entering ..." signs to advise you've passed from one to the other. Their respective downtowns are only 2 or 3 miles apart, and quite often I'd swear there's a sharp stationary front sitting on or close to the dividing line, since it'll be thunderstorms there but clear and sunny here, or vice-versa.
Slightly OT, but relevant to the peculiarities of local geography ... Ontario Hwy 8 runs primarily east-west from the border across from Buffalo (Ft. Erie) to the crossing at Detroit/Windsor, but dog-legs more north-south for a few miles through our area. Since one of Kitchener's main thoroughfares, King St., was part of that highway before the expressways were built, Kitchener designates it and parallel streets as east-west, while cross-streets are, naturally, north-south. Waterloo, on the other hand, rotates the designations of those streets which cross over between cities, to more logically follow the actual orientation of the streets locally. So you can imagine the confusion when visitors pass through along King St. and find that the street has East, West, South, and North sections without their ever having turned a corner! lol
