Australia braces for more wet weather with above-average rainfall predicted through winter and into spring

Landscape primed for flooding' with dams at capacity after back-to-back La Nina events

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The wet weather that has triggered record floods and filled dams across much of eastern Australia looks set to extend well into winter and beyond, global models indicate.

While autumn is typically the most difficult period to make season-ahead predictions, conditions favouring increasing cloud formation off north-western Australia look likely, even as rain-inducing weather from the Pacific recedes.