Our climate is influenced not just by Pacific weather patterns but by the Indian and Southern oceans, as well as global heating trends
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The Bureau of Meteorology has declared the end of the 2023-24 El Niño event.
Since 1910, there have been 29 El Niños, a phase that sees easterly equatorial winds in the Pacific slow or even reverse. These increase the odds in eastern Australia for a dry winter into spring.
