Cool Change; not change.
A Cool Change is a term used in south eastern Australia for the arrival of a Cold Front in the afternoon or evening after a day of high summertime temperatures.
The arrival of the front often produces falls in temperature in the order of 10C to 15C and sometimes thunderstorm activity.
- Now, in the west, a black cloud lifts its head,
- And, faint at first, a distant muttering breaks.
- Chill and spasmodic little winds are sped
- Down the still forest that once more awakes,
- And all this green world takes
- A saffron tinge. And, as the black clouds spread
- Up to the zenith, comes a flash of red
- A crash - and all earth shakes.”
–C.J. Dennis: The Cool Change, Melbourne Herald (now Herald Sun), 29 January 1936
Cool Change is also the name of a popular Little River Band song, appearing on their 1979 album ‘First Under the Wire’. The song was a Top 10 pop and Adult Contemporary hit in the USA in early November 1979.