4: Chaotic Spring Weather Accelerates Bushfire Threat GUEST NAME: Jeremy Zachis Australia's spring weather is chaotic and non-normal, leading to potential catastrophic summer conditions early. New South Wales is experiencing high winds
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🗓️ 12 October 2025
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Chaotic Spring Weather Accelerates Bushfire Threat
Australia's spring weather is chaotic and non-normal, leading to potential catastrophic summer conditions early. New South Wales is experiencing high winds creating a bushfire tinderbox. Queensland is hit by heavy, monsoonal rain and strong storms. Western Australia's lower half faces heavy rain due to the Indian Ocean dipole, while South Australia and Victoria are relatively normal.
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| 0:26.6 | The leaves have turned falling off my tulip tree in the garden. Everything in the garden looks like it's |
| 0:33.1 | tucking up for winter. In the springtime of Australia, however, there's a story to tell. This is a continent, |
| 0:41.1 | not a state, and the continent has pieces that never have been in one band together. They always |
| 0:48.5 | have competing sounds depending on the season. This is springtime. So we'll start in New South Wales with |
| 0:56.2 | Jeremy Zakis because it's been windy. It's windy here as well, but you say this is unusual. Good |
| 1:02.7 | day to you, Jeremy. Good day, John. Yes, this is windy, but windy to a whole new level. And when |
| 1:09.7 | I say a whole new level, typically what we |
| 1:11.6 | get here in New South Wales and in Australia during the springtime is relatively mild winds. |
| 1:16.9 | So we're talking winds that blow in from the ocean around about 20, 30 miles per hour will |
| 1:21.7 | be that the worst wind will get. It's annoying but not devastating. However, as we speak, some parts of the great eastern seaboard here in Australia are getting |
| 1:31.0 | winds up to 70 miles an hour. |
| 1:33.2 | So that's round about 100, 120 kilometres an hour in our speak. |
| 1:37.8 | And it's not only happening, it's happening ongoingly. |
| 1:41.7 | So it's happening all the time. |
| 1:43.1 | It's not just gusts of wind coming through. |
| 1:44.9 | It's actually enduring winds. And this is a big problem for us because here in spring at the |
| 1:49.8 | moment, we haven't really had an all spring. We haven't had a spring where we're getting mild |
| 1:55.1 | temperatures, we're getting a little bit of rain and we're kind of easing in the summer. |
| 1:59.7 | We've had quite a weird spring. |
| 2:01.4 | We've had a real whiplash of weather where we've had some weeks where there have been |
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