This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor with Jeremy Zuckus in New South Wales.

Unprecedent. That's what the weather people are telling Australia right now.

This is a continent. I always have to remind myself this is not a

series of states jammed up against each other. Yes that's true but they're not

jammed. It's a huge territory. I mean vast. And so therefore the weather's not one thing, but right now,

Jeremy, the unprecedented part is that I read that you're having now five consecutive years of

La Nino or El Nino let's start with New South Wales you've been having a lot of

rain is it continuing it's actually stopped as we speak. The rain is expected to continue but the

funny thing is we've gone into this very, very dry spell and when I say

very dry spell it's absolutely no rain across the entire state as we speak and that came on the back of a week of really really intense rain where every day we had rain we had in the end that was calculated at least 100 millimeters which is several

inches, caused flooding, caused all sorts of problems to our Sydney train system here which

I mean it can take rain but it really can't take an inundation on rain.

It actually overfilled our biggest dam, the Waragamba Dam as well and created a spillover.

But then two weeks later, we are now almost completely dry.

So this goes back to the one

we got from the Bureau of Meteorology that the weather is not going to be

how we normally expected in autumn which is based or fall as you call it

because normally it should be a little bit of rain getting cooler

leading into winter where we get a lot of rain. But instead what we've had is a lot of rain really quickly.

Now we're into a very dry dry spell but the temperature is the biggest

strange part of it all right now we're talking about 20-23 degree days which is

around about 70-80 Fahrenheit so we're talking about temperatures that are really either

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