Thursday, March 1, 2012

Fed: El Nino to cause wet autumn across Australia

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Fed: El Nino to cause wet autumn across Australia

By Adam Morton

MELBOURNE, Feb 28 AAP - The break-up of the El Nino effect could see one of the driestsummers on record turn into a wetter-than-average autumn, weather experts predict.

But farmers and firefighters may need to keep their champagne chilled for a little longer.

While National Climate Centre climatologist Blair Trewin said the "rapidly decaying"

El Nino pattern made it an even-money bet the March-May period would bring more rain thanusual, farmers expect it will be slow to undo the effects of the drought ravaging theeastern seaboard.

Mr Trewin said most of …

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