Well my friends, with one of our favorite sons legging it from this site, I have taken it upon myself to inform that... it's back for the 2nd straight Summer FFS.
However this year’s event is not predicted to be as strong as the 2010-12 one, an expert from the Bureau of Metereology said.
www.theguardian.com
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has declared a La Niña weather event is under way in the Pacific, bringing the country in line with other agencies, and underscoring the prospect of a relatively cool, damp and stormy summer for much of the north and east.
The declaration, made at a media conference in Melbourne on Tuesday,
confirmed a Guardian Australia report. The bureau said
it had shifted its outlook for La Niña on its main climate drivers forecast.
“Key atmospheric and oceanic indicators of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) show an established La Niña,” the bureau said.
It made the call based on sea-surface temperatures that were close to La Niña thresholds in a key region of the tropical Pacific, with models indicating further cooling was likely. The indicators they watch include the amount of cloud buildup and the strength of trade winds.
“The current model outlooks suggest this La Niña will persist until the late southern hemisphere summer or early autumn 2022,” the bureau said, extending the longevity of the event from earlier predictions that it would begin to dissipate by the end of January.
A majority of the models used by the bureau now predict La Niña thresholds will be met in February 2022.