Fears drought could follow floods as BOM forecasts chance of El Niño arriving off back of La Niña
Farmers across Australia are anxiously watching long-term climate forecasts, with fears a hot and dry El Niño system could back up the current flood-inducing La Niña.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has advised that 40 per cent of past La Niña events have switched to El Niño events in the same year that a La Niña has ended.
This year's La Niña is expected to recede by autumn.
The last El Niño resulted in a record-breaking drought from 2017 to 2020, and that has farmers worried.
"I don't want to think about El Niño or another drought," Moree grain and beef producer Oscar Pearce said.
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