This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I'm John Bachelorette, Jeremy Zachis, and we're discussing wildfires because of the tragedy

in Maui, but also because the expectation with an El Nino approaching that wildfires will

begin in the spring and the devil, Australia, all summer long, dry, hot conditions, and

the undergrowth is a match.

We come to a combination of cyclones, aka hurricanes and wildfires.

Jeremy, there's an analysis that you sent on to me about the idea of controlling cyclones.

First, let's establish where do cyclones come from and what do they mean for the Queensland

and for New South Wales, because I believe they come down your coastline.

That's right, John. Cyclones in Australia, they typically come from northern parts.

So it's often across the equatorial belt, basically, which is where the warm air is basically

amassing the cyclonic conditions, such as the Corridor, which is created by having a northern

hemisphere and southern hemisphere bunches of weather systems coming together and creating

large whirlpools of air and hot, hot moist dense air masses that all come together to create

the cyclones, means that in Australia that all that mixture happens to the north and then it pushes

down to the south. And the reason that pushes to the south because cyclones traditionally

started warmer areas and then tracking the cooler areas where they pick up speed and then

eventually dissipate. So what happens is that typically northern territory, which is at that 12

o'clock, the very top part of Australia, Queensland and certainly down here in Sydney,

we tend to get cyclones as they track down the coastline and basically push the weather systems

inland. But the thing is, John, that cyclones, as with tornadoes, as hurricanes, as they come across

land itself, they begin the weekend. So what we tend to see is that cyclones tend to stay out

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