The El Niño has ended. Will Australia get a La Niña next – and what weather could that bring?

Wollongong flooding. ‘You do have those El Niños where you get reasonable summer rainfall,’ BoM’s Karl Braganza said. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

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.