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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Peter Hannam

BoM declares the El Niño is over and another La Niña could be on the way

A water-bombing helicopter is seen flying past the sun during bushfires in Queensland in November 2023
A water-bombing helicopter fights a bushfire in Queensland in November. The Bureau of Meteorology says the 2023-24 El Niño weather event is over. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

The Bureau of Meteorology has declared the El Niño weather event of 2023-24 to be over, with odds increasing that its cooler counterpart, the La Niña, will return by the coming spring.

Conditions in the central equatorial Pacific have now returned to neutral conditions, about seven months after the El Niño had got under way, the bureau said on Tuesday.

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