I'm John Bachelor, Friends of History Debating Society with Jeremy Zakis.

El Nino Year. That means warm ocean. That means that a lot of precipitation has to fall

and it in an Aligno year means that it falls in Australia

sometimes, but this year Australia was supposed to be dry and very hot and the water was supposed to head to North America to the North Tempered zone

None of this has happened and we're now moving into the autumn season in Australia as we're moving into spring season in the

north hemisphere. Here in New England we've had one snow of 10 inches. That's it. And we're now having spring rain start immediately at the beginning

in March. Heavy spring rain, but clearly the birds know, the daffodils know, all the creatures of the forest know, spring is here.

I saw a white tail move through in daylight.

I've seen the daffodils three, four inches tall.

Spring is here, and it's not supposed to be here for another two weeks.

Jeremy is going to report on Australia where the weather is equally unpredictable,

but they have one twist that we don't have in New England.

Wildfires.

Jeremy, I begin with the reporting out of Victoria.

What's happening there that's unusual? Well, as we speak again, the wildfires are continuing to move through Victoria, mostly in the rural areas at the moment, so very much a long way north of Melbourne, and in the very much scrub and bushland top of the

areas of the state however however the fact is that they are there all because at

this time of year John we were expecting to have a lot mild of weather and

basically we weren't expecting to have temperatures up around the 30s and even getting close to 40 degrees Celsius

So we're talking well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit at this time of gear. So I won't say that the state itself was actually

already preparing for the winter months and they had basically taken away the preparedness.

Effectively though, the resources that we would normally have at the beginning of summer weren't all really ready to go for this catastrophic fire season we've suddenly got so late.

So as we speak now, there are at least a few hundred fires still being monitored or in play.

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