S8 Ep883: John Batchelor and Jeremy Zakis discuss an impending "Super El Niño" causing extreme global weather patterns. Australia prepares for catastrophic bushfire risks due to unprecedented dry conditions and a lack of winter rain. Conversely, the United States a
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 5, 4, 3, 2. |
| 0:17.0 | 2. |
| 0:18.0 | 1. Two. |
| 0:24.6 | One. |
| 0:28.1 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. |
| 0:32.1 | I am in New England, John Batchelor, and I reach to New South Wales. |
| 0:39.7 | Jeremy Zakis in Sydney, New South Wales, the Southern Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere, |
| 0:44.6 | both under assault by El Nino and not a normal Erdinio. |
| 0:48.0 | A very good chance. It's a super El Nino. What does that mean? |
| 0:51.3 | Wetter where it's wet, dry or where it's dry. |
| 0:55.1 | Jeremy, a very good day to you. Your meteorologist for some time have been saying an El Nino this year is possible. It already could be underway between May and |
| 1:01.7 | July we expected to show. The chart that I have in the New York Times shows enormously |
| 1:08.5 | dry area sweeping from the Central Pacific down to the top of New Zealand |
| 1:13.8 | and then plowing right across Australia. |
| 1:16.4 | The only bit of the continent that's missed is maybe a piece of Western Australia. |
| 1:21.0 | It's not going to be drier. |
| 1:22.2 | It's already dry. |
| 1:23.8 | But where you are, you're in the target zone, a very dry, dry, dry time of it coming your way. |
| 1:31.7 | Where I am, the continental United States all the way up to New England, |
| 1:35.9 | from California to the Great Lakes to New England, |
| 1:39.5 | leaving only parts of Florida out is going to be wet, wet, wet, lots of rain. |
| 2:01.2 | Super Aligno, and the New York Times says that climate change has made the El Nino not only unpredictable how severe it will be, but everything is, where it's wet, it's wetter, where it's dry, it's drier. Are you ready, Jeremy? Good day. Gidey, John. I'd like to say I'm ready, but you're right. |
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