More rain on the way for Australia as NSW readies for more flooding | Laura_R_Chung perkinsmiki
Australia is likely to receive more heavy rain in late winter and into spring after the Bureau of Meteorology declared a negative Indian Ocean Dipole was under way in the nation’s north-west.
The wet weather is likely to linger over the country after a negative Indian Ocean Dipole was declared on Tuesday.It also brings a high chance of above-average rainfall over large areas of Australia in late winter and spring. “This has coincided with back-to-back La Niña events as well,” Domensino said. “Australia, at the moment, is stuck in this prolonged period of wet phase climate drivers – the broadscale patterns that influence our weather.”
“When we look back in time, we see we sometimes have these conditions – warmer sea temperatures in the east Indian Ocean … and wetter conditions over south-east Australia,” King said. The BOM previously warned that saturated soil from recent rainfall events, as well as full water systems – including most dams around NSW above 70 per cent capacity – would exacerbate flooding risks. It will be several more months until the agency can declare a third successive La Niña event, but there is a 50 per cent chance one could occur.
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