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New South Wales. Sydney, Jeremy Zachis reporting on what we've been waiting for for weeks and

weeks. The meteorologists in Australia have given in. El Nino has arrived, but there's a twist.

Jeremy, a very good day to you. El Nino. Super El Nino. It means drier weather.

It means hotter weather, but you've got a twist. What about the Indian Ocean? Good day, too, Jeremy.

Good day, John. Yes, we do have a twist and what a twist it is. So not only have we been declared

officially now in and out within your state of weather system, but the Bureau of Meteorology also

dropped another bomb. Basically, we're in the Indian Ocean Diapol positive cycle as well,

and now what that means, John, is that the Indian Ocean Diapol, which, as the name suggests,

it means the Indian Ocean has carved itself up into two different temperature systems for the ocean

temperatures itself. So what the positive effect means is that on the eastern side here,

where Australia is, the Indian Ocean is actually colder than on the western side. So basically,

we've got a very big variation in ocean temperatures in the Indian Ocean, and that creates what's

called a convection current whereby all the cold water and all the cold air that's basically on the

eastern side here gets sucked up into the atmosphere, pulled across to the western side of the

Indian Ocean, and the rain drops down in the west. Whereas here on the eastern side of the Indian

Ocean, we are only going to get dry conditions. So John, what that means is that only are we getting

the El Nino effect creating dry hot conditions across at least the next six months. We are also

getting a double whammy whereby the Indian Ocean Diapol is creating even drier conditions for us

here in Australia, which means we're going to get even less rain because of that as well. So

literally everything here in Australia is creating dry, warm, and hot conditions for the next six

months, which is exactly what we don't need right now. I saw a photograph over these last days

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