I dunno that the forecasters are having much fun here Down Under..... it's usually fairly easy to predict what our summers are gonna be like - Hot & dry, with a strong chance of fires; and yeah, we've done that..... But now the monsoon season has finally broken out up in the tropics, we've also got a brace of cyclones in the North West driving rain all the way across the country.... mostly not enough to really help with the drought or the fires, but in those areas where they've managed to beat the fires for now, there's nothing to hold the rain or any moisture in the soil, so if it's not currently "hot & dry with fires", then it's "hot & humid with floods!!" :gaah:
Dorothea Mackellar really got it right when she described Australia in her poem 'My Country":
"I love a sunburnt country,
a land of sweeping plains,
of ragged mountain ranges,
of droughts and flooding rains..."
and I really do love it too..... altho I hafta admit that there are occasionally days when I'd rather we didn't get
all of that last line thrown at us at once! :shocked:
As for our weather forecasters..... they're on a hiding to nothing atm.... whichever way they decide to go, it's gonna be awful for some/somewhere! :gaah: Some days, you just can't win! :cus: