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16 May, 2015

Bureau confirms we are officially in an El Niño


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he Bureau of Meteorology has officially declared that we are in an El Niño, shifting its tracker from ALERT (a greater than 70% chance of El Niño forming) to an actual event.

Speculation began in early 2014 that the world would see an El Niño, possibly a significant “super” event, by the end of that year. However the event development hit a few setbacks, and many thought the El Niño was already dead.

Read the story - “The rise and rise of the 2015 El Niño” – on The Conversation.