This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batcher heading to

New South Wales. It is springtime. Always eternal spring with Jeremy

Zachus because when it's my spring it's his winter, autumn coming winter. When it's my autumn coming

winter, it's his springtime. So I can chase the flowers around the world.

Jeremy, the flowers are out there, so are the creatures, but we have to begin with your

disturbed weather.

Again, I have no long memory of Australian weather. The officials are using the word severe. Let's

begin with New South Wales. You're in the south eastern part of the continent. Are

you expecting severe weather or is this from for the perpetually

alarmed Queensland and the very vulnerable Northern Territory or is it for you? Good evening Jeremy.

Good know John we are definitely expecting severe weather here but interestingly

we're getting different severe weather to Queensland I start with New South Wales here.

What we're actually expecting right now is not heavy rains and heavy storms,

which our brothers and sisters to the north are expecting. We're actually going to be getting

very high winds. So as we speak right now, there are coastal wind

warnings all up and down the New South Wales coast here inland. While it's a little

bit breezy right now and it feels quite sedated and quite nice. We're actually expecting those

winds to really stiffen in from the west and start to get really, really high by the

afternoon. So we do have some wind weather warnings out there for damaging winds across most of the

Sydney area and southern New South Wales. So from severity wise we're actually

expecting to have a pretty nasty afternoon, but then as you move further up the East Coast of Australia, up towards

Queensland, that's where it gets very, very severe. And when I say severe, absolutely

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