This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelors. It's a great pleasure to welcome

Jeremy Zackas from New South Wales to report on the southern hemisphere in Australia weather, climate,

waiting for summertime. It is spring in Australia. And to sum up, the weather has been unpredictable and unusual.

Right now, we go to Queensland, north of where Jeremy lives,

because they're reporting in a place, this is wonderful, called Birdsville, I wonder what's there,

45 degrees centigrade, which is very, very hot.

We have 46 degrees centigrade at a place called Walsh Pilbara.

Jeremy, Queensland has Brisbane, the big town.

But are these temperatures where people live or are these the outback good day to you

good day john well these places are actually very well populated so you're right

Brisbane is the big city there in queensland it's it's very much to the southern part of the

state but when you get up to Birdsfield and up to sort of like

Waucahia, well, not Kenya, and weep here and some of those northern areas that we're reporting

those very, very hot 45 degrees, so 110 Fahrenheit temperatures this week, they still have

tens of thousands of people living there. And you can imagine too, John, living in some of those

areas,

while it's remote, it's still a town that's bustling and still relatively busy, but it's

also in an area that has got a lot of humidity. So not only are you dealing with over 110 degrees

Fahrenheit temperature, you're also dealing with a very, very humid part of the world, too. So I can only

imagine, John, that the poor people of Queensland right now, and I must say, too, some of the

temperatures down in Brisbane, too, were well and truly into the high 90s. Queenslanders right now,

they are definitely doing it really tough. Fire season, we have a great big fire in Ventura County on the coast north of Los Angeles.

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