{"id":21936,"date":"2026-06-16T17:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/australia-declares-el-nino-in-pacific-that-could-become-strongest-in-decades\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:50:13","slug":"australia-declares-el-nino-in-pacific-that-could-become-strongest-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/australia-declares-el-nino-in-pacific-that-could-become-strongest-in-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia declares El Nino in Pacific that could become strongest in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Australia&rsquo;s weather bureau warned on Tuesday that an El Nino &zwnj;weather pattern has formed in the tropical Pacific and could intensify to become one of the strongest in &zwnj;seven decades.<\/p>\n<p>Sea surface temperatures in the &#8288;region exceeded El Nino thresholds &#8288;and atmospheric &#8288;indicators all aligned with the phenomenon that &zwnj;brings extremes of weather, the Bureau of Meteorology said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Forecasts &#8288;are &#8288;pointing towards a strong to very strong El Nino event, based on the extent of warming in the central tropical Pacific,&rdquo; it &#8288;said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Around half &#8288;of the models indicate this event &zwnj;could peak at levels among the highest observed since 1950.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern &zwnj;Pacific Ocean, El Nino is linked to less rainfall in winter and spring, particularly on Australia&rsquo;s east coast and higher southern daytime temperatures, the bureau said.<\/p>\n<p>The weather phenomenon is particularly damaging to Australia as it affects &#8203;agricultural production in the country, which ranks among the world&rsquo;s largest exporters of &zwnj;wheat, sugar and beef.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The last El Nino experienced in Australia from 2023 to 2024 caused the driest three-month period &zwnj;on record.<\/p>\n<p>One of the strongest such &#8288;events, occurring in &#8288;2015 and 2016, brought widespread &#8203;drought and reduced grain and oilseed &#8288;output.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have &zwnj;said climate change will supercharge the &#8203;effects of this year&rsquo;s El Nino.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"small-caps text-small text-serif\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">&copy; Thomson Reuters 2026.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><sub>Australia declares El Nino in Pacific that could become strongest in decades<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&rsquo;s weather bureau warned on Tuesday that an El Nino &zwnj;weather pattern has formed in the tropical Pacific and could intensify to become one of the strongest in &zwnj;seven decades. Sea surface temperatures in the &#8288;region exceeded El Nino thresholds &#8288;and atmospheric &#8288;indicators all aligned with the phenomenon that &zwnj;brings extremes of weather, the Bureau&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/australia-declares-el-nino-in-pacific-that-could-become-strongest-in-decades\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Australia declares El Nino in Pacific that could become strongest in decades&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}