chilling - the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature. cooling, temperature reduction. freeze, freezing - the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid. heat dissipation - dissipation of heat.
Australia is also one of the driest continents on earth with an average annual rainfall of less than 600 millimetres. Like all countries in the southern hemisphere, Australia's seasons are opposite to those in the northern hemisphere.
National rainfall for 2014 was 13 mm, or 3%, above the 1961â1990 average (average is 465 mm). Compared to rainfall in all years since 1900 (115 years), the Australian annual total of 478 mm makes 2014 the 40th-wettest year on record, near the median or mid-point of historical observations.ictoria's annual rainfall has been below average for 15 of the last 18 years (1997â2014); only 2000, 2010 and 2011 observed above-average rainfall during this period, with each of these three years affected by La Nina. niÃ±a