Australia weather: records forecast to be broken as heatwave temperatures surge past 40C

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3. Just saw a documentary about the problem in New South Wales

It covered the 5th year of a drought, no decent grazing land left, farmers were trying to feed their cattle by driving 12 hours to buy truckloads of hay which was going up in price before they even got back to their farms.

that's a 24 hour round trip, 3-4 times a week, in an attempt to save valuable blood stock herds.
The small towns in the area which depended on the farming communities are going broke, no one has a lot of money.

Scenes of the lush green grassy areas of a few years ago,compared to the desert like ground now, are heart breaking.

So very much like the Dust Bowl years here in the US, except they don't think the good years will return.