La Niña to bring wet and cool summer

THE weather outlook for the next few months will likely be affected by a La Niña event being declared by the Bureau of Meteorology. It is unusual for the event to arrive on two consecutive years and it generally leads to cooler and wetter summers. Photo: SPEC FILE.

By Mark Rabich

November 30, 2021 | 4:00 PM

LAST week the Bureau of Meteorology issued a declaration that the upcoming summer would be wetter and cooler than normal, the result of observations of tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures and conditions.

The current model outlooks suggest this La Niña will persist until the late southern hemisphere summer or early autumn 2022.