S8 Ep334: SEVERE STORMS AND BUSHFIRES PLAGUE AUSTRALIA'S CHAOTIC SUMMER Colleague Jeremy Zakis. Zakis describes a tumultuous Australian summer featuring severe storms on the east coast and dangerous bushfires in Victoria. Shifting winds from the desert and Antarcti
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🗓️ 18 January 2026
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| 0:39.2 | I'm John Batchelor in southern New England where the weather has turned winter. |
| 0:46.7 | With 61 days to go to springtime, there were not one, not two, but three different snows today from different directions. |
| 0:56.1 | Not heavy, quite happy if you don't have to shovel them, and easy on the sole, even shoveling. |
| 1:04.9 | I have my new snowblower with headlights, so it was an exciting event the first time the second time it became a little |
| 1:13.0 | icier and now that there's snow coming in tonight i'm thinking maybe i'll let this go till the |
| 1:17.5 | morning jeremy wonderful to speak to you because you're in summertime and don't i miss it |
| 1:24.3 | how's your weather j? Good day to you. |
| 1:32.1 | Giday, John. Well, I wish I could say we were in a proper summertime, and it was beautiful weather out there. We're having barbecues by the beach and enjoying truly beautiful weather. |
| 1:36.7 | But unfortunately, I cannot say that we're in a summer like no other. We are in a summer that |
| 1:42.8 | right now is full of severe storms lashing the |
| 1:45.8 | East Coast right here and now. Storms coming from the eastern side of the continent, so not the |
| 1:51.0 | western side as normal, which means they are ferocious. They've got high winds. They've got very, |
| 1:56.2 | very heavy rains. And there is a lot of thunderstorms, electrical storms around, which means all that dry |
| 2:02.4 | bushland out there that's been dried off by really severe heat that we had two weeks ago |
| 2:06.7 | is starting to catch fire as well. So John, we're having a really, really severe storm. And then |
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