#OzWatch: The reluctance to declare El Nino will soon be joining the Indian Ocean Dipole: hot dry wildfire conditions. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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🗓️ 3 September 2023
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https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/el-nino-likely-develop-between-sept-nov-australian-weather-bureau-says-2023-08-29/
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Friends Fister Debating Society, I'm John Bachelord, to the South Tempered Zone. |
| 0:36.0 | Southern Hemisphere, Jeremy Zakis in Sydney. |
| 0:40.0 | It is late winter in Sydney, in all of Australia, |
| 0:45.0 | and the watch word for some weeks now has been. |
| 0:48.0 | Is it El Nino? Will it be El Nino? Is El Nino here? |
| 0:52.0 | Jeremy, a very good day to you. El Nino is associated with a lot of hot and a lot of dry. |
| 0:59.0 | Your winter has been warm, very warm in New South Wales, |
| 1:04.0 | but we have warm winters here in New England as well. |
| 1:07.0 | So what is your extremely cautious weather bureau saying about El Nino? Good day to you Jeremy. |
| 1:15.0 | Good day John. Yes, extremely cautious is the best way to describe it. |
| 1:19.0 | And what are weather bureau is saying now, after many, many months of not declaring El Nino, |
| 1:24.0 | they've actually given us a time frame when they expect to declare El Nino. |
| 1:28.0 | So what we've been told now is sometime between September and November, |
| 1:32.0 | our Bureau of Meteorology will probably announce that we are officially in an El Nino situation. |
| 1:38.0 | But I might add here John is the reality is they also in the same breath admit |
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