SPEAKERS

LILY, JENNY

JENNY  

Wow, BOM has Indigenous weather knowledge. 

LILY  

Oh cool. 

JENNY  

Select a community to view their seasonal calendar. Wow. Then there's a bunch of communities... about the Indigenous weather knowledge website... learn more about the IWK website and the Bureau of Meteorology's commitment to strengthening respectful and collaborative relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 

LILY  

Cool 

JENNY  

That is, wow there's whole calendars for different regions. So for example Nyoongar calendar which is over in Western Australia: Birak is first summer. December-January, season of the young, dry and hot burning time. Bunuru (and I apologise for my pronunciation): second summer. February-March, season of adolescence. Hottest part of the year. Djeran: autumn, April-May, season of adulthood. Cooler weather begins. Makuru: winter. June-July. Season of fertility, coldest and wettest season of the year, more frequent gales and storms. Djilba: first spring. August-September, season of conception. Mixture of wet days with increasing number of clear cold nights and pleasant warm days. Kambarang: second spring, October-November, season of birth, longer dry period so 1-2-3-4-5-6. Okay, so another region which is looks like South Australia, Kaurna have four: summer, autumn, winter, spring. Okay, so some have got six some have got four. Interesting. One'ss got butterfly season, wildflower season and nesting bird season and cockatoo season and honeybee season and eel season.  Cool.  That's the Gariwerd. And that's looks like it's in the Victoria area. Wow. Okay, there you go.