This is the Friends of History Debating Society a little under the weather but calling my good colleague

Jeremy Sackus in New South Wales for the climate report from down under.

This is the Southern Hemisphere as it is coming fall in the northern

hemisphere. It is springtime in the southern hemisphere. Therefore you expect the

plants to be out, all the creatures moving around, and

very exotic creatures, and they'll all try to kill you at first. We're going to

Western Australia, however, which is an unknown land to me except for the city of Perth that

regards itself as quite different than the rest of Australia. I see that's

weather though is very different. Jeremy a good day to you.

I'm unfamiliar with the weather in Western Australia.

I do remember that whatever was going on in the East Coast for the last two years, there was

always something profoundly different in the West

coast and now they've got a cold spring is that and lots of wind is that unusual

for them good day to you. G'd a John. Yes, it is very unusual at this time of year.

Typically in Western Australia, it is a lot warmer than it is here on the East Coast during springtime.

It typically doesn't get the wet weather,

the storms that we tend to get a little bit

into springtime here, but this year have really

had it exacerbated on us.

And they're actually a little bit mildless.

So they tend to get a very very good

spring but what's happening as we speak is they're actually getting almost the

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