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Speaker 1: Jumb mission with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: We've been trying to get hold of Jonathan Howe the

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Speaker 2: Bureau of meter Old justs senior meteorologists have an extremely

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Speaker 2: busy morning, as you can imagine, He joins us. Now, Jonathan, Hello.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Jeronsy in the matter, Hello.

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Speaker 2: What is this weather pattern? What is happening to us

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Speaker 2: at the moment?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's absolutely crazy, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: It's been a wet February and now everybody even more rain.

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Speaker 1: It's it's pretty the same system which impacts US, Southeast

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Speaker 1: Queens and northeast New South Wales. All that rain and

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Speaker 1: cloud has moved down the coast, and we do have

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Speaker 1: an East Coast low just off the coast in Newcastle.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure many Sydney residents are very familiar with

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Speaker 1: these kind of intense, powerful systems. So you have plenty

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Speaker 1: going on and what.

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Speaker 2: Would drive the East Coast low away?

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Speaker 1: Jonathan, Yes, we really need a big cold front to

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Speaker 1: come through. Without that kind of Systney coming in from

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Speaker 1: the west, it would just tend to stall and move

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Speaker 1: down the coast. But thankfully it's expected to kind of

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Speaker 1: week off, weaking off tonight and tomorrow, but not before

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Speaker 1: bringing some heavy falls. We did see some huge totals,

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Speaker 1: particularly across western Sydney of over night one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy one millimeters at Warra Gamba, but Penrith one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty, Richmond one hundred and twenty three, Liverpool one

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Speaker 1: undred and twenty two, Campden one hundred and twenty so

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Speaker 1: huge rainfall totals, and we're expecting quite a bit more today.

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Speaker 2: I've been hearing that we're going to have wet weather

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Speaker 2: right through till May. Is that true?

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Speaker 1: I guess there is definitely some truth to that. We

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Speaker 1: still we still are in that La Nina pattern which

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Speaker 1: does mean wetter and more humid weather across the East coast,

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Speaker 1: and that'll stick with us probably till about mid April

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Speaker 1: at this stage and only really start to weaken off then.

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Speaker 1: So certainly looking to be another wet kind of months

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Speaker 1: or so right across the East coast of Australia, and

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Speaker 1: then hopefully by May we do see things start to

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Speaker 1: drive a little bit, but definitely do prepare for these

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Speaker 1: kind of wet conditions to last for the next step

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Speaker 1: in for least the next month, and the ocean temperatures.

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Speaker 1: I was floating around in Sydney Harbor on the weekend,

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Speaker 1: or sometimes I call it sailing, and the water is

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Speaker 1: really really warm. Yeah, so it's it's all coming down

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Speaker 1: from the coral seas, so pretty much in northern Queensland,

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Speaker 1: the seats of the temperaures are there are up to

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Speaker 1: thirty degrees and these kinds of systems can bring down

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Speaker 1: all that really warm water down towards right down even

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Speaker 1: into the harbor as well. So yeah, I'm sure beach

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Speaker 1: goers right along the coast over the past few weeks

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Speaker 1: I've probably noticed these, yeah, quite quite warm waters, and

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Speaker 1: that's not good news for these systems because the warm

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Speaker 1: of the water, the more evaporation the areas are, the

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Speaker 1: more rain and cloud so it all kind of ties

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Speaker 1: in together.

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Speaker 2: It seems at this time last year people were battling

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Speaker 2: these same kind of floods, same kind of rain. Is

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Speaker 2: this now an annual event?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're really hoping not. Unfortunately last summer was also

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Speaker 1: La Nina, and so we do get these kind of

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Speaker 1: climate events, we do have the increased chance of these

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Speaker 1: kind of flooding. Unfortunately, to Sydney it was a very

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Speaker 1: much the bad fortune aligning with very wet months and

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Speaker 1: then basically any rainfall that came through went straight into

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Speaker 1: the rivers. And so this is what we're seeing right now,

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Speaker 1: so very much urging people right across western Sydney, the Hawks,

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Speaker 1: Queen of Peen, even along the Georgia's River as well,

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Speaker 1: to keep an eye on those flood warnings. Very dangerous

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Speaker 1: situations similar to last year's much event for many communities,

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Speaker 1: So pay attention to those warnings, follow all the vice

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Speaker 1: and police and as usual, stay stay away from flooded

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Speaker 1: roads and creeks.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan, you are a legend.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Jonathan, stay safe. Jonesy and Amanda's gamination