Jeremy Zakis, Part One: Zakis discusses the unprecedented 4°C Pacific anomaly—ocean warming not seen in 150 years—its disruption of global trade at the Panama Canal, and the unseasonal heavy rains hitting Sydney rather than a baking heat dome. He explains

Jeremy Zakis, Part One: Zakis discusses the unprecedented 4°C Pacific anomaly—ocean warming not seen in 150 years—its disruption of global trade at the Panama Canal, and the unseasonal heavy rains hitting Sydney rather than a baking heat dome. He explains the science of a wet El Niño: how moisture from the Indian Ocean dipole is driving these downpours, and the meteorological trend showing Australian El Niños shifting wetter over the last century, potentially linked to climate change. Zakis then turns to the looming fire threat—how these heavy rains trigger rapid undergrowth that soon dries out into highly flammable bushfire fuel—and Sydney's strategy of preparing containment lines and fire breaks around inhabited areas. (1)