#OzWatch: Extreme heat across the Continent. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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🗓️ 15 January 2023
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#OzWatch: Extreme heat across the Continent. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
https://7news.com.au/news/weather/millions-of-aussies-to-swelter-through-brutal-heatwave-as-others-cop-heavy-downpours-c-9445459
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| 0:31.5 | debating society to new South Wales during my Zakas reporting on climate. It is summer |
| 0:37.6 | time down under and how climate connects to the economy and then we'll look to creatures |
| 0:44.0 | down under and finally another lesson in cricket. The game that started in the British Empire |
| 0:50.7 | but is quickly moving around the world and is headed to the United States time to learn |
| 0:55.8 | cricket from Jeremy Zakas. Jeremy, a very good day to you. Again, the climate dominates |
| 1:01.5 | the story. Once upon a time it was rain, rain, rain, bucketing rain. The same scale of |
| 1:07.9 | rain that's now striking California and the Pacific West. They call it atmospheric |
| 1:13.5 | rivers. We called it Bucketing when it was happening to you, but your opposite of |
| 1:18.0 | Bucketing now. The headline says that 40 degrees centigrade, which is more than 100 degrees |
| 1:24.2 | Fahrenheit is possible or could be possible this weekend. Has it reached that temperature |
| 1:29.4 | in New South Wales? Good day to you. Yet, John, I'm pleased to announce that we haven't |
| 1:34.9 | quite reached the 40 degrees or 105 Fahrenheit yet, but we're all anticipating it will come |
| 1:39.6 | in the next week or so. And this comes on the back of some fairly mild weather we've also |
| 1:43.8 | had in New South Wales, which is very unseasonable because as you mentioned there, we had only |
| 1:48.6 | just recently been talking about how it was constantly bucketing here in New South |
| 1:52.4 | Wales. We were constantly getting rain. We were getting those flash floods. We were getting |
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