#OZWATCH: JEREMY ZAKIS, NEW SOUTH WALES. #FRIENDSOFHISTORYDEBATINGSOCIETY. SUMMARY: Meteorologists rely on experience as models fail, citing oceans being one degree warmer. The eastern seaboard faced high winds (60 mph), heavy rain, and "mega hail" up to
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 September 2025
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| 0:25.2 | England, where the skies are solid blue, the sun is bright, not too warm, but no rain. |
| 0:32.1 | No rain for some weeks now. So the stream through my farm is dry. I can see the rocks at the bottom. There are little pools |
| 0:41.2 | here and there, but nothing flowing. The pond is well down, although the boulder at the bottom, |
| 0:48.3 | in extreme dry conditions in August sometimes is exposed and the turtles climb on it. |
| 0:54.5 | Well, that is not exposed, but a very dry September. |
| 0:59.1 | The other side of the world, coming spring, where I'm buying bulbs for autumn planning, |
| 1:05.1 | Jeremy Zackison is getting ready to tidy up the lawn as the flowers burst out and the snakes come flying. |
| 1:14.2 | Jeremy, your weather, we've debated it for some weeks. |
| 1:17.6 | The meteorologists throw their hands up. |
| 1:20.5 | What has it been this last week? |
| 1:22.1 | Anything unusual or the meteorologist are just shaking their heads. |
| 1:27.1 | You know, John? Well, really, the meteorologists, and I feel heads. You know, John? |
| 1:28.1 | Well, really the meteorologist, and I feel sorry for them, they are frustrated. |
| 1:32.8 | They are throwing their hands up in the air, and they just can't figure it out. |
| 1:36.4 | Because we were supposed to have a very nice, warm week. |
| 1:40.2 | It was supposed to be clear skies. |
| 1:42.2 | It was going to be light winds and it was going to be |
| 1:44.4 | actually very similar to what we normally get for a spring type of entry into summer, I guess |
| 1:49.9 | you could say in many ways. But no, instead we got complete weather chaos. The week started out. |
| 1:55.9 | Okay, we did get a couple of days there with beautiful weather and light winds, but then it turned nasty very, |
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