Drought - not now, as the Mighty Murray seems to be rather full and overflowing. The term boom and bust comes to mind - both regular occurances akin to weather events. References to being unseasonal is worded by reporters on multiple occasions. Perhaps you missed the excerpt from the previous post:
I’m a meteorologist by degree from Rutgers. We have a whole team of meteorologists, but we’re more statisticians and physicists, but statistics and climate cycles are very stable, so they’re a much better way to predict temperature, rainfall, snowfall.
