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Speaker 1: Jomb mission with Jones and rain and rain, as you say.

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Speaker 1: This week the Bureau of Meteorology has declared a lunnina.

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Speaker 1: It's a nice name, but I think it means it's

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Speaker 1: going to be wet. What does it mean beyond that

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Speaker 1: we now have the operational Climate Services well, the head

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Speaker 1: of that from the Bureau of Meteorology, doctor Andrew Watkins. Hi, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: how are you?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Good morning everyone? Not wet yet?

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Speaker 1: So what are we in for in the short term

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Speaker 1: and then the long term?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Look, over the next few days, it's certainly looking quite

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Speaker 2: wet right up the east the seaboard of Australia. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: in November, finished the rains for us just yet, but

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Speaker 2: looking forward, hint summer. Look, we have said that the

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Speaker 2: lunina is on, but we also have what's kind of

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Speaker 2: like a lunina out in the Indian Ocean as well,

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Speaker 2: And that's like we're the keep things a bit wetter

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Speaker 2: in December, but gradually easing back, hopefully over the summer

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Speaker 2: to something a little bit more normal. By the time

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Speaker 2: I get to autumn's.

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Speaker 4: Been going away. You happen to drive my umbrella?

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Speaker 3: Wow, So well, summer holidays wet, well, it could be,

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Speaker 3: particularly up the New South Wales coast there it is

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Speaker 3: looking like it could be wet of a normal and

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Speaker 3: unfortunately with the cloud around, be cool of a normal too.

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Speaker 4: Well do you remember twenty nineteen before this start of

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Speaker 4: the pandemic, how hot it was, And I remember the

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Speaker 4: last plane I was on flying back from Melbourne to

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Speaker 4: Sydney as I was landing, just all of New South

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Speaker 4: Wales pretty much on fire.

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Speaker 1: So this may be good news.

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Speaker 4: So this could be a good thing.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, of course, And that's one of the good

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Speaker 2: things about running here. It does reduce the fire risk,

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Speaker 2: at least bushfire risk anyway for most places, particularly sort

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Speaker 2: of on the dividing range and seawards. All those areas

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Speaker 2: that had the bad fires along the New South Wales

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Speaker 2: coast a lot less chance of that happening this year.

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Speaker 2: But inland we are a little bit nervous because all

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Speaker 2: that grass has been growing and the crops and everything

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Speaker 2: and is going to have to be harvested. That's all

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Speaker 2: going to dry out, and so we are a little

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Speaker 2: nervous about grass fires inland at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Does it also mean we're going to see more things

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Speaker 1: like mozzies who like it warm and wet.

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Speaker 2: That you hate them. Yeah, look, yeah, unfortunately, people get

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Speaker 2: to get the nets out if you can. We might

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Speaker 2: have a few uncomfortable nights with the mozzies buzzing around

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Speaker 2: our heads, humid weather, a bit more of the puddles

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Speaker 2: lying around and so on for them to breed in,

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Speaker 2: and unfortunately does does have a bit of an impact

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Speaker 2: with things like Ross River fever and so on. So

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Speaker 2: just cover up a bit more if there are massies around,

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Speaker 2: because we do see spikes in those those mozzi diseases

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Speaker 2: like Ross River during one years.

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Speaker 4: And this isn't caused in any way by kids eating

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Speaker 4: corn on the roof of a farmhouse.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: You remember that, and remember the rains are here and

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Speaker 1: all kids eating juicy juicy coin.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, sometimes take rain anyway we can get it,

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Speaker 2: won't we. But yeah, that's not even our models running.

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Speaker 2: You're at this stage anyway.

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Speaker 4: Are you sure sure? I'm just like, I'm just asking

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Speaker 4: for a few of the ten people out there government.

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Speaker 2: No, I think I think we're all pretty convinced that

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Speaker 2: things are wet at the moment, and in all seriousness,

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Speaker 2: with the rain with everything the landscape already wet. Be

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Speaker 2: really careful about flooding. Don't drive through flood borders if

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Speaker 2: it's If it's flooded, forget us. As we say, turn around,

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Speaker 2: don't drown.

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Speaker 4: Good work, Andrew, well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. I don't know if it's great news,

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Speaker 1: but thank yous. We're for warn but it's it's humid

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Speaker 1: and it's wet. You know.

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Speaker 4: What about the weather.

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Speaker 2: Jonesy and Amanda's g