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Maximum temperatures for January to September were the warmest on record for the Murray–Darling Basin and New South Wales. DEAN LEWINS/AAP

Australia moves to El Niño alert and the drought is likely to continue

Skie Tobin, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Catherine Ganter, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, and Robyn Duell, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

After the warmest month on record, it looks like Australia will have an El Niño event – which means the drought is likely to continue.
People in the Philippines have been warned to brace for wet and wild weather, as this year’s El Nino shapes up to be the strongest since 1998. EPA/RITCHIE B. TONGO/AAP

2015-16 is shaping up to deliver a rollercoaster from strong El Niño to La Niña

Wenju Cai, CSIRO; Agus Santoso, UNSW, and Guojian Wang, CSIRO

The seesaw between El Niño and La Niña is set to get stronger with global warming. Signs are that this year and next will deliver a big swing from one to the other, prompting fires and floods across the world.
Drought conditions are set to become more frequent with the changing behaviour of the Indian Ocean. Peripitus/Wikimedia Commons

Drought in store as El Niño’s western cousin to grow stronger

Agus Santoso, UNSW and Wenju Cai, CSIRO

Over the past few months, a lot of attention has been paid to the potentially strong El Niño event brewing in the Pacific Ocean. But there is also the potential for an emerging climate phenomenon in the…

Related Topics

  1. Bureau of Meteorology
  2. Climate
  3. Climate change
  4. Drought
  5. El Nino
  6. Floods
  7. Indian Ocean
  8. La Nina
  9. Rain
  10. Weather

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