The Big Dry & The Big Wet

The Big Dry & The Big Wet
Description of severe droughts and flooding in Australia.

“It’s been called the Big Dry and the Big Wet,” The Times of Londonreported, ”Australia’s weather is split between floods in subtropical Queensland, while southeast Australia and Tasmania suffer heat and drought that have stoked up an inferno.”


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