This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor to New South Wales,

my colleague at friend Jeremy Zachus, reporting on El Nino Year in the Australian continent.

I must remind myself this is a whole continent and it touches

from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic from the very warm Indonesia seas with lots of weather associated with tropical climate

to the Antarctic trends coming out of Antarctica, the cold air. So it's not one thing. And Jeremy's in New South Wales where

the Aligno year was expected to be dry and hot. It's turned into, because of summertime, it's turned into wet and hot and

Brisbane north of Jeremy along the Queensland coast, the Gold Coast, seems to be enduring the toughest

weather that everyone's seeing, lots of rain, lots of wind, and now cyclones.

Jeremy, a very good day to you.

Is cyclone a common occurrence

at this time of year in Australia?

Good evening to you.

Gidde, John.

Yes, cyclones, unfortunately are a very common occurrence, especially as we get past the middle of summer

here in Australia, we start to get into a period where basically all that built up energy,

all that built up moisture in the system in the northern parts of Australia

start to manifest in these very violent storm systems,

which are the cyclones.

And the cyclones here in Australia are relatively predictable.

So far as you know, it's going to be this time of year.

They're normally coming in from the northeast to cross Queensland or they're normally coming in

kind of in the Darwin type territory across from the north and they'll only hit up there.

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