The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has reportedly proclaimed that an active El Niño could become a historic event in the modern era. The phenomenon is characterized by warmer than normal water temperatures in the central tropical Pacific.

The El Niño coincided with what is rapidly transitioning into a wet month across much of Australia. This week marks a major extratropical cloudband is dropping rain over the southern two-thirds of the nation.........

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