Here’s what you need to know about the El Niño climate pattern and how it could impact Australia’s summer bushfire season
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The Bureau of Meteorology has declared that Australia is now in the grip of an El Niño climate pattern.
It follows a warning from the UN’s weather agency in July that an El Niño event had begun, which would likely see a “surge in global temperatures and disruptive weather and climate patterns” around the planet.
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