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#OzWatch: El Nino arribves wi the threat of a Black Summer. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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🗓️ 30 July 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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#OzWatch: El Nino arribves wi the threat of a Black Summer. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/global-boiling-confronting-graph-a-warning-for-australia/news-story/1463f8b4c72296b7ab6abaff8f9f6f33

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This is the FriendsVistory Debating Society. I'm John Bachelworth, Jeremy Zachis in New South Wales,

0:26.0

where it is winter. And winter expects El Nino, which has already started.

0:32.0

So, we're looking ahead. El Nino is warmer temperatures than the Pacific.

0:37.0

El Nino visits North America. El Nino visits South America. Right now, Australia is in a winter time.

0:47.0

The warm Pacific. What's ahead for Australia, however, is a very dry spring, very dry spring,

0:56.0

with heat waves. Now, Jeremy, you send me a new term. I didn't know. Black summer. What does that mean?

1:04.0

Yes. Basically, John Black summer is really given to any summer that has a really serious or catastrophic wallflower.

1:11.0

But in this day and age, Black summer actually specifically refers to the 2019, 2020 summer,

1:18.0

where we just recently had ongoing wildfires, which were then combined with an ongoing heat wave,

1:25.0

which created a smoke event across Eastern Australia, lasted about two months and created a weather pattern

1:30.0

that led to really not just atmospheric conditions and terrible air quality.

1:35.0

So, you may remember, it was making international headlines for Australia's air quality in the eastern part of Australia

1:41.0

was worse than anywhere else on the planet for almost two, four months.

1:44.0

And it was worse by about tenfold than it was just because the smoke from the fires was sitting over the eastern sea board

1:51.0

and just made it absolutely horrendous. And that's what they're referring to now with Black summer.

1:56.0

But you hear other terms too, such as Ash Wednesday, which was some terrible fires in 1983.

2:01.0

We had some Black summer fires in 2017 as well, which killed a lot of people who are down in the southern part of Victoria.

2:08.0

But Black summer in this term, John, and what they're referring to as good to carry again,

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