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Heavy Rain Brings Flash Flooding to Sydney, Prompts Rescues

Heavy rain brought flash flooding to Australia's largest city Sydney on Sunday, prompting rescues and residents to sandbag houses, as authorities warned of bad weather ahead. Emergency authorities received 50 calls for assistance, mostly for sandbagging of properties and help plugging leaking roofs, from residents in Sydney, the capital of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

What to expect when you’re expecting an El Nino

The declaration of an El Nino watch this early in the year carries some uncertainty. But it’s still got people thinking about dry conditions.

The New Daily

Three years of La Nina has improved ACT water quality but it's not all good news

Fewer platypuses were spotted during the recent survey than in 2020.

The Canberra Times

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Victorians on alert as total fire ban declared

A total fire ban in parts of Victoria has been issued as high winds and temperatures hit the state.

AAP

Expect a hot and dry winter as chance of El Nino phase heats up

Temperatures lingering above 30-degrees well into March as chance of El Nino phase increases and winter promises warm, dry days for Newcastle and the Hunter.

Newcastle Herald

From floods to drought – 50/50 chance of El Nino on the horizon

The weather bureau has issued an El Nino watch and warns a drought could occur later this year after years of heavy rain and floods.

The New Daily

La Nina is gone. Here are the deadly storms during its run

The natural temporary weather phenomenon La Nina is gone and that's good news for a disaster-weary Southeast

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It’s Over: NOAA Declares Official End To La Nina

On Thursday, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) announced an end to the protracted La Nina weather pattern.

Zenger

La Niña, which worsens Atlantic hurricanes and Western droughts, is gone

The cooling in the Pacific Ocean has gone on for three years. Its end is usually good news for the U.S. and other parts of the world, including drought-stricken northeast Africa, scientists said.

WEKU

La Nina, which worsens hurricanes and drought, is gone

La Nina is a natural and temporary cooling of parts of the Pacific Ocean that changes weather worldwide.

Chicago Sun-Times

Forecasters: La Nina, weather's unwanted nasty guest, leaves

Scientists say the La Nina weather phenomenon that increases Atlantic hurricane activity and worsens western drought is gone after three troublesome years

The Independent UK

South Florida’s winter was ‘much warmer’ this year, again

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Another unusually warm winter is in the books for South Florida, the second-warmest ever recorded in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

Tribune News Service

La Nina nears end amid Canberra's below average summer

Bureau of Meteorology ACT summer report confirms temperatures below average.

The Canberra Times

As La Nina fades, Climate Council warns of devastating fires on the horizon

The summer of 2023-2024 will also almost certainly see a return to normal or above normal risk conditions for fires across most of Australia.

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Australia a 'powder keg' for grassfires after big wet

Every time Australia has had prolonged periods of wet weather, deadly fires have followed. Experts say the death of this La Nina will likely end the same way.

Tribune News Service

Wet La Nina winter likely to bring more water into Lake Powell

LAS VEGAS — One of the Colorado River’s two major reservoirs is expected to collect better than average runoff this year, thanks to an unusually wet La Nina pattern that dropped a deluge of snow up and down the basin.

AAP

Suncorp rains down dividends despite La Nina challenge

Insurance and banking group Suncorp announced bumper dividends for investors, posting large earnings in the face of increased claim costs caused by La Nina.

The New Daily

From floods to fires? A climate scientist on the chances El Nino will hit Australia this year

Forecasts of El Nino are challenging several months in advance, but particularly at this time of year. More heatwaves could be coming.

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Reuters

New Zealand's southern waters experiencing marine heatwave

Waters around New Zealand’s South Island are as much as 6 degrees Celsius (42.8 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal due to climate change, the weather phenomenon La Nina and a series of high pressure systems, according to scientists.

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: What came together to make deadly Alabama tornado

Experts say a natural La Nina weather pattern, unusually warm moist air juiced by climate change, and long-term shift in where tornadoes hit all are factors in Thursday's devastating tornado in Alabama

The Independent UK

2022 was fifth or sixth warmest on record as Earth heats up

Government science teams say that 2022 didn't quite set a record for heat, but it was in the top five or six warmest on record depending on who's doing the measuring

AAP

Australia warmer, wetter in 2022

Australia was warmer and wetter than historical averages last year as La Nina and climate change hit the country, causing widespread flooding and heatwaves.

WEKU

A stubborn La Nina and manmade warming are behind recent wild weather, scientists say

In a world getting used to extreme weather, 2023 is starting out bonkers. Meteorologists are saying it's typical weather weirdness, with a boost from human-caused climate change.

Reuters

La Nina wet weather system slowly weakening - Australian weather bureau

After one of the wettest years on record, Australia's weather forecaster says a La Nina weather pattern, associated with wet weather, is slowly weakening, although a separate weather system will keep the odds of rain high until mid-January.

Reuters

Arid wheat fields and dead cows: a snapshot of Argentina's worst drought in decades

In the fields around the town of Navarro in Argentina's Pampas farm belt, the dried-out bed of a huge lagoon and decaying bodies of dead cattle are stark signs of a historic drought that is hammering crops and farmers like Ignacio Bastanchuri.

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