This is the Prince of History, Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor,

to New South Wales, to Sydney, to Jeremy Zakis, reporting on the climate in Australia.

It is winter now. And El Nino was long predicted. El Nino brings dry weather, and that would lead

to conditions that are not safe for Australia because of the threat of wildfires, forest fires.

However, after three years of La Nina, perhaps it was welcome that we're not going to be drenched

again, except they're drenched again. Jeremy, a very good day to you. Heavy June rainfall defies

Bureau of Meteorology's dry outlook across large parts of Australia. I'm looking at a map of

Australia that shows very heavy rainstorms in the north around Darwin and beyond. Very heavy rain

along the south, Australia coast and the Victoria coast. And very heavy rain in Queensland,

everywhere but where you are. Now, is there an explanation for this? It's supposed to be dry. Good day to you.

You know, John, yes, it is absolutely barmy and weird right now that the short explanation,

as we've been told now by our Bureau of Meteorology is that there are a couple of major weather

systems which, well technically not part of El Nino, are playing into a weather system as we speak.

Now, the first one is their southern annual, southern annual module down to the south of Australia,

which is basically where the Antarctic gear mixes in with some warm air and the southern parts of

Australia creates a lot more moisture in the atmosphere and then leads to a lot of rain down in

the southern parts of Australia. So that's the first one, but at the same time too, we're still seeing

the very end of the Indian Ocean dipole and what we believe is the beginning of El Nino. So

what that means is there is a lot of warm moisture, warm moisture in the middle of Australia

and to the north, which is mixing with a lot of cold air also in the same area coming across on

the jet strip. So what you actually get is a lot of moisture in the north as well. And this week

that all came across Australia and that manifested in these two very, very wet systems. So in the south,

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