S8 Ep656: Summary 4 Jeremy Zakis details the aftermath of Cyclone Narell, a massive storm that caused significant flooding across Western Australia. The discussion then shifts to the end of the La Niña cycle and the impending arrival of El Niño in 2026, which is ex
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🗓️ 29 March 2026
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| 0:32.5 | I'm John Batchel to New South Wales, Jeremy Zackis, reporting on the climate. |
| 0:39.2 | And in particular, it's been a week since we mentioned Cyclone Norel. At that time, Norel was moving right over Darwin. |
| 0:47.0 | The eye looked to be a little south of Darwin, and tremendous storm that had moved from North Queensland where it had done a lot |
| 0:57.5 | of damage coming from the Pacific. And Jeremy said the expectation was it would pound Darwin and then |
| 1:04.3 | move off into the Indian Ocean direction to pick up power and then come back in somewhere in western Australia. |
| 1:12.9 | A very good prediction, Jeremy. |
| 1:14.7 | What has actually happened in seven days? |
| 1:17.1 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:19.0 | Gidey, John. |
| 1:19.8 | Yes, it met expectations. |
| 1:21.5 | Not only did it cause a lot of damage just south of Darwin, a lot of flooding, a lot of wind |
| 1:26.0 | damage and basically devastation across |
| 1:28.5 | a very large area of the Northern Territory, it headed straight out into the Indian Ocean, |
| 1:34.3 | as we all predicted, got a lot more power into it, basically re-energized, through a lot more of that |
| 1:39.5 | tropical energy, I guess you could say, from the Indonesian kind of archipelow and brought in a lot more |
| 1:45.0 | tropical air mass. Then it actually swung back around to the south, as we were also expecting and |
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