Recent Quakes, Violent Weather In Southern Hemisphere

"Here in the antipodean Southern Hemisphere we have been and are experiencing VERY odd weather over the last few weeks. Examples: Heavy rain in South Africa (Jo'Burg) during May = first time in memory. Heavy rain in Western Australia during May = unusually VERY high unseasonal and anomalous rainfall. Violent electrical storms - last Sunday we had fantastic electrical storms with cyclonic wind speeds and multiple tornadoes that created HUGE damage across Perth region (NEVER EVER SEEN BEFORE IN 175 years of EUROPEAN AUSTRALIAN MEMORY). "