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It’s fairly wet in Sydney this week.
But most Australians would know that by now, because we haven’t heard about much else.
With no shortage of high stakes international conflicts, global economic uncertainty and the excitement of the nation’s high-octane winter football codes – the Australian news cycle has spend the last 72 hours speculating about a weather event that is set to cause to discomfort to the residents of Sydney.
A wild weather system has pummelled Sydney for a second day today, forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights, bringing down trees and causing black outs.
While this weather event does not really compare to the natural disasters faced by Queensland and the north coast of NSW earlier this year, it is getting just as much air time.
This is because it’s taking place in Sydney, which is home to the vast majority of Australia’s news journalists.
So far, this weather event has been given several highly emotive titles, none of which are actually recognised by any meteorologist groups.
These titles include ‘east coast low rain bomb’ or ‘cyclone bomb’ – with some even going as far as describing it as the ‘Megadeath Corpse Maker Super Storm’
With the last few days of weather failing to live up to the hype, the media is still insisting Australians prepare for ‘worse yet to come’.
This all but affirms that age old saying ‘How do you know they got some rain in Sydney? Don’t worry, the nation’s entire media sector will tell ya!’.
