This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchel in southern New England, where it is chilly, below freezing, gray clouds all day, little sunshine, good for planting bulbs.

At the same time, we're expecting winter. Expecting summer is the other part of the world. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales, coming summer and

cyclone season. Jeremy, a very good day to you. We go immediately to Darwin, Northern Territory,

and Dew Inn is a very big cyclone. How big? What's what's ordinary what's unordinary about this and

where's it tracking good evening to you good day john yes we have got an absolutely monster of a

cyclone right now just off of the coast of darwin which is the very top in the middle of

australia it's called cyclone fina and it is currently measuring around about 200 miles across

from end to end. Now that doesn't mean it's the same intensity across the entire cyclone,

but that's the actual width of it. And right now as we speak, it is heading straight towards

the city of Darwin, which is 152,000 Australians living there, and it is expected to come across the

coast pretty much any time today. But what makes this cyclone so dangerous is that the

recorded wind speed is over 160 miles an hour near a centre right now. Now, this cyclone is much

more intense and much stronger than anything we've seen anywhere in Australia in the last few years.

And we're now being told by the Bureau of Meteorology because of its size, because of its wind speed,

this is the biggest storm and cyclone in this part of the world, particularly in the last 20 years.

So this is a one in 20 year cyclone that's about to hit Darwin.

At the moment, the city is all locked down and ready for it.

But John, this is amazing because we've gone pretty much from a state of really no cyclones

expected through the season, maybe one or two towards the end,

that all of a sudden a monster cyclone in the space of less than a week.

All right, Darwin, you say it's 160,000.

Are they under order to evacuate?

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