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

Zachus, watching the climate. Because it's unusual, say the meteorologist, because it is wintertime down under, and because Antarctica

and Lanyna and El Nino and the tropic Air coming down from Indonesia and the islands down the coast all

converge on Sydney making the weather unpredictable.

Jeremy, a very good day to you, you send me a photograph of what looks to be a field of growth,

high grasses, some bushes in the background, and it all looks frozen frosty.

What's your weather been this last week and is that Antarctica I'm seeing the frost on your grass?

Good evening to you.

Giddai John and look it has been cold it has been frosty in fact that

picture encapsulates everything we've gone through in the past week and and no it's not

quite Antarctica but you're pretty

close there because what actually happened is we've had a cold blast coming up

from Antarctica swathing across the southern parts of Australia so the bottom right

hand corner of the map, and dropping ice and snow all over our northern Victoria, southern New South Wales, alpine region.

So that photo there, John, too, has a very startling detail as well. As you mentioned you can

actually see the tall grass is covered by frost and snow. Normally at this time of

year we don't have tall grass because typically what has happened by now the weather's been so

cold it's been so dank I guess you can say that the grass has stopped growing and it's normally pretty short

but because of this very very weird weather cycle we're having,

where we're having warmer weather, rain, and cold,

all on top of each other, the grass has actually grown.

The leaves are still out on the lot of the trees.

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