La Nina Australia

The likelihood of a La Nina weather event in coming months has decreased, Australia's weather bureau said, adding that if the phenomenon did appear, it would be weak and short-lived.

Rains during the June-September season are likely to be 99 percent of the long-term average, Vilasrao Deshmukh said in a forecast keenly watched by traders and policymakers.

The US space agency has said that a particularly strong La Nina weather pattern of coolerwater temperatures is fueling heavy rains and floods in Australia."Although exacerbated by precipitation from a tropical cyclone, rainfalls of historic proportion in eastern Queensland, Australia have led to levels of flooding usually only seen once in a centur...

The likelihood of a La Nina weather event in coming months has decreased, Australia's weather bureau said, adding that if the phenomenon did appear, it would be weak and short-lived.

Rains during the June-September season are likely to be 99 percent of the long-term average, Vilasrao Deshmukh said in a forecast keenly watched by traders and policymakers.

The US space agency has said that a particularly strong La Nina weather pattern of coolerwater temperatures is fueling heavy rains and floods in Australia."Although exacerbated by precipitation from a tropical cyclone, rainfalls of historic proportion in eastern Queensland, Australia have led to levels of flooding usually only seen once in a centur...