La Niña weakens as climate indicators neutralise

WITH farmers still getting back on track after significant spring rainfall in the south-west last year, the Bureau of Meteorology’s long-term climate outlook for the next three months is for more likelihood of an increasingly warmer and drier autumn than average. Photo: MARK RABICH.

By Mark Rabich

February 20, 2023 | 4:00 PM

THE Bureau of Meteorology earlier this week updated its long-term climate outlook with a return to average rainfall conditions more likely in the south-west after a very wet spring in 2022.

Although the outlook for March is a slightly higher (60 per cent) chance of above-average rainfall, April and May are forecast less likely (about 40 per cent) to exceed the average.