BoM declares the El Niño is over and another La Niña could be on the way
by Peter Hannam from Environment | The Guardian on (#6M3R5)
Seven months after an El Nino associated with hotter and drier weather got under way, conditions have returned to neutral
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The Bureau of Meteorology has declared the El Nino weather event of 2023-24 to be over, with odds increasing that its cooler counterpart, the La Nina, will return by the coming spring.
Conditions in the central equatorial Pacific have now returned to neutral conditions, about seven months after the El Nino had got under way, the bureau said on Tuesday.
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