Weather bureau warns El Nino on track to hit record levels by Christmas
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The Bureau of Meteorology has warned the current El Nino event now looks set to reach record levels and continue well into next year.
Appearing at a Senate Estimates hearing in Canberra, bureau director Dr Rob Vertessy said that while the current El Nino had not yet reached the peak of record-setting events in 1982 and 1997, "we forecast it to get there eventually around Christmas, and the phenomenon could persist well into the autumn".
The deepening El Nino is bad news for farmers, with about one third of the country already experiencing rainfall deficiencies that are worse than the bureau's 'one in 10 years' benchmark.
"About half a million square kilometres of land, or just over 7 per cent of the country, has got as bad as 'one-in-50-year' deficiencies or worse," Dr Vertessy said.
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