For the CollegeHumor editor, writer, and actor named Jeff Rubin, see CollegeHumor. Jeff Rubin (born August 24, 1954) is a Canadian economist and author. He is a former chief economist at CIBC World Markets. Rubin had worked at CIBC World Markets and its predecessors since 1988, and served as chief economist from 1992 to 2009, when he resigned. 1 Education and early career.
Australia is experiencing the coldest start to winter in forty years after parts of the country were buried under a foot of snow. Temperatures plunged as low as minus nine degrees Celsius as the alpine resorts of Perisher and Thredbo in New South Wales disappeared underneath a blanket of snow on Monday evening.
The city has a subtropical climate with temperate weather all year round. Unlike the inland desert areas of Australia, sea breezes keep things comfortable in the city. Located in the Southern Hemisphere where seasons are reversed, July is the middle of winter in Australia. The month of July is the coldest in Sydney, but simultaneously, it is also the driest. Still, this is Sydney, so the temperatures never plunge to the kind of depths experienced in other countries across the world during winter time.