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#OzWatch: Omnibus report on surprising climate, aggressive snakes and Australia National Cricket. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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🗓️ 2 April 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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#OzWatch: Omnibus report on surprising climate, aggressive snakes and Australia National Cricket. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-01/australias-delayed-summer-la-nina-sam-blamed-for-hot-march/102148990


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-29/act-legislative-assembly-regulation-protection-education-snakes/102155570

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/hes-in-a-much-better-space-locks-bolters-and-fringe-members-of-australias-ashes-squad/news-story/fc45004e48b95973c924f937c94fb6f6

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0:00.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

0:12.8

I'm John Bachelors headed to Australia where it's fall coming winter.

0:19.4

However, there's much to say about the Australian winter weather these last seasons.

0:25.7

In Germany's axis here in New South Wales, there's been huge rainstorms.

0:31.4

There's been flooding.

0:32.8

There was snow where it shouldn't be.

0:34.8

And then the heat, Jeremy, a very good day to you.

0:38.8

The heat was a story the last time we talked in early March.

0:42.8

Now you introduce me to the Southern annular mode, short and hand as Sam.

0:49.0

What is it Jeremy?

0:50.0

Good day to you.

0:51.7

You know, John, yes, the Sam looks like it's actually the what we have now instead of

0:56.6

Leninia.

0:57.6

So across the entire Bureau of Meteorology and all the climatics or the climate

1:02.0

scientists here in Australia, they're telling us now that Leninia is over.

1:05.6

We're finished with Leninia.

1:06.9

The strange Leninia patterns won't hit us anymore.

1:09.9

But we now have this Southern annular mode.

1:12.1

And what this, basically, in a nutshell, is a band of cold weather systems across

1:17.2

the southern part of Australia that will disrupt what is normal weather patterns for all

1:22.6

our seasons.

1:23.6

So for example, right now, that cold Southern annular mode, or Sam, as we call it, was the

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