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Ever feel like the weather has gone completely off the rails lately? ⛈️
You aren't just imagining it. In this episode, we uncover the
scientific thriller behind the 1983 discovery of the
Southern Oscillation Index (SOI)—a breakthrough that promised to tame the chaos of
El Niño and predict catastrophic droughts.
Why this story matters today:- The Dismissed Genius: Meet Neville Nicholls and John McBride, the meteorologists whose revolutionary research was ignored by the establishment until the devastating Ash Wednesday bushfires proved them right.
- Predicting the Apocalypse: Learn how a simple pressure difference between Tahiti and Darwin became the world’s most powerful tool for climate forecasting.
- Breaking the Models: We explore the modern crisis—why climate change is heating our oceans and causing traditional weather patterns to fracture, leaving even our best scientists guessing.
From human tragedy to cutting-edge atmospheric science, we’re peeling back the curtain on why our modern weather feels so erratic. Is the climate shifting faster than we can track? Or are we losing our ability to forecast the future?
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Listen to the full story and discover why the rules of weather have officially changed.👉
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