Yeah, you'd think that the reporter might have heard of the southern hemisphere, where it is the dead of winter right now.
Apparently this is just too difficult to check out what's going on in Australia.
Note for later: only Europe "counts" when it comes to global warming.
They ought to be grateful for the heat. If it weren’t for the Gulf Stream they’d be freezing. London and Brussels are around the same latitude as St. James Bay, Ontario.