1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,679 Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 2: We've been experiencing some sweltering weather over the last few days. 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 2: With Lan Nina coming to an end, they say, experts 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,719 Speaker 2: are now saying we could be facing the opposite later 5 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 2: in the year when El Nino returns El Nina, remember old, 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 2: good old El Nino. 7 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. 8 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 2: To tell us more about El Nino and what the 9 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 2: weather could be like later in the year. Meteorologists and 10 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 2: seven News weather presenter Tony Orton Tony, Hello. 11 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: Good morning Jones in the manner. I'm impressed with your 12 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: pronunciation of La Nina and El Nino. You're doing well. 13 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 3: It's cool. 14 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 2: I like two Mexican puppets. 15 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 3: She knows the stuff. Our first things first, Tony, have 16 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 3: we officially said goodbye to La Nina? 17 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: No, we haven't. We are still technically in La Nina. 18 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like it. Generally it's been hotter and 19 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: dry for much of Eastern Australia, but still technically we 20 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,599 Speaker 1: are there. The ocean temperatures of technically just pushed out, 21 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,279 Speaker 1: but the atmosphere is still doing its thing. But as 22 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: I've mentioned, off the back of that really really wet 23 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: year last year, wet winter with all that flooding. What 24 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: we're seeing is it's a weaker signal. What we're getting 25 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: is a couple of storms and rate events here and there, 26 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: but it's all up in the tropics at the moment, 27 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:10,960 Speaker 1: apart from those storms last night across Sydney as well. 28 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 2: And so as we start to phase out, then from 29 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 2: La Nina, our good old friend El Nina returns and 30 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 2: what does that mean. 31 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: For us, Well, that's right, most likely we will be 32 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: heading into El Nino. Having said that, the Bureau does 33 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: put a little disclaimer on the forecast at this time 34 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: of year that they're not quite as good. But I 35 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: think it's most likely where we're going to go into 36 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 1: a dry pattern of most probably Al Nino into next summer. 37 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: So that means obviously drier and hotter generally. I think 38 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: we've had minimal thirty degree days in Sydney in the 39 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: past few months. It's been obviously a very wet and 40 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: cool year relatively. The issue that we'll have if it 41 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: dries out is we've got a lot of vegetation right 42 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: across the Eastern Australia. So those three fairly wet years 43 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: and all the flooding, if that vegetation dries out and 44 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: we could be in for another big fire season as well, 45 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: So it's something to be wary of as we move. 46 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 3: For So, if we're having a barbecue gathering at your place, Tony, 47 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 3: and we're inviting lan Nina and El Nino around, who 48 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 3: would you be happy to have around at your place? 49 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 2: Which would you prefer you? 50 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 3: Out of the two brothers, you'd sit there and go, well, 51 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 3: all sisters or sisters. 52 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: It's actually a brother and sister. It's the Blacklden girl child, 53 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 1: so it's one of each. Okay what they literally mean, 54 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,959 Speaker 1: that's very modern Nina. I'm a yeah. I'm a surfer myself. 55 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: We generally get more swell in Lanina's and I like 56 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: the little bit of extra rain to keep my lawn green. 57 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: But having said that, it's always a trade off of 58 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: flood the fire generally, and I think there's a few 59 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: people out there that might not see the same. 60 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 2: And it's interesting as we say, you're sitting on the fence, 61 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 2: won't it be nice? 62 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: I'm very much in the lun in case, I appreciate 63 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: there's a few people that have been flooded that might 64 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: not want the same again. 65 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 2: But also saying that you want some drier conditions that 66 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 2: could mean disaster. I mean, this is hotter and drier. 67 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 2: The world is getting hotter and hotter the greenhouse gases, 68 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 2: So this isn't just a pleasant resetting of summer, is 69 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,959 Speaker 2: it necessarily No. 70 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: Well, what we're seeing with that background changing of the 71 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: climate we're warmed up almost one and a half degrees 72 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: in the past century or so, is that we're spending 73 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 1: less time in that sweet spot of neutral conditions and 74 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: more time and severe end of the range at the moment, 75 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: so we can very quickly duck from flood into drought. 76 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 1: And we're seeing ground level moisture really dropping very rapidly 77 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: over Eastern Australia after the last few months. So that means, 78 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: as I said, is that risk of fire dangers. But 79 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: we'll have to deal with that in coming months and 80 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:31,399 Speaker 1: see how it goes. 81 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 3: May to me seems to be the perfect month made. 82 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 2: Around Eastern But let's hope that the people, the grown 83 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 2: ups are doing ground clearing and all that kind of 84 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: stuff so we're not taken by surprise when summer arrives. 85 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's a bit of common sense everyone around your house. 86 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: If you can do what you can Obviously, authorities only 87 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: have a limited window when they can actually burn, et cetera. 88 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: So sometimes we could be hampered in that preparation, but 89 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: I think everyone's expecting it hostually. Everyone can get planned 90 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: thing early and it may not be that bad, but 91 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: we'll have to be prepared. 92 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 3: A man has been firing up her backyard incinerator. Yes, 93 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 3: that's burning everything. 94 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 2: You should do it in the street. And now I 95 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 2: put it in my back. 96 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 3: In the gatter anymore. 97 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: I find you can call it a fire hit and 98 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: have a glass of wine and. 99 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,119 Speaker 2: Smoke out the neighbors. 100 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 3: Thank you for helping us keep up to date on 101 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 3: the latest weather on seven News. But a bird avery 102 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 3: or something. 103 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: Ah yeah, there's all kinds of wildlife here at the moment, 104 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: just out and about in nature at the moment. 105 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 3: This is Tony. This is what you do. This is 106 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 3: how you live your life, being picked to death and 107 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 3: being attacked by birds. 108 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: Tony, I'm doing some fuel research to see what the 109 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 1: weather's doing outside. 110 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 2: Fair enough, Well, thank you, Tony. 111 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 3: Great to talk to you.