RickCorey said:I went hunting and found a great climate site!
http://www.hobart.climatemps.c...
http://www.climatemps.com/coun...
http://www.seattle.climatemps....
They say that Hobart, Tasmania, Australia is Köppen-Geiger classification: "Cfb". \
That's close to my coastal PNW Koppen zone "Csb" except that we have dry summers. Maybe my summers are hotter and winters colder.
Are you overcast and drizzly 8-9 months of the year?
Koppen Cfb - Maritime Temperate or Oceanic. Changeable weather. Often overcast. Cool summer, mild winter.
Köppen-Geiger Csb: dry-summer subtropical "Mediterranean"
"Hobart, Tasmania has a marine west coast climate that is mild with no dry season, warm summers.
Heavy precipitation occurs during mild winters which are dominated by mid-latitude cyclones.
Seasonality is moderate."
They also mention something new to me: the "Holdridge life zones system of bioclimatic classification". They say Hobart is in or near the "cool temperate moist forest biome".
Read more: http://www.hobart.climatemps.c...
Hobart is definitely not overcast and drizzly for 8-9 months of the year. We just perpetuate that image to keep the (present company exclude, thehazell!) mainlanders away! 
Dun know where the statistics for those sites could have been cooked up. 
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