Environment
El Niño may be the strongest on record, but the Bureau says its effect on Australian rain is not a given
Models point to the current El Niño exceeding the 1982–83 event, with central Pacific sea-surface anomalies possibly above 3.0 °C, yet the Bureau of Meteorology says a neutral-for-now Indian Ocean Dipole, warm seas around Australia and long-term warming will shape spring and summer as much; water st