From the Sydney Morning Herald:
The El Nino weather pattern continues to consolidate in the Pacific
with most climate models indicating it will extend well into next year,
the Bureau of Meteorology said.
The event, which typically boosts
global surface temperatures and leads to warmer and drier than average
conditions for much of Australia, may also be a strong one, the bureau
said in its fortnightly update.
Sea-surface
temperatures in the equatorial Pacific - stretching from just west of
the international dateline all the way eastwards to the South American
coast - are at least one degree warmer than normal.
"It is unusual
to have such a broad extent of warmth across the tropical Pacific," the
bureau said. "The last time this occurred was during the
[super] 1997-98 El Nino."...MORE
Sea Surface Temperature anomalies via
Unisys Weather:
