The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has warned that the country faces slipping back into the El Nino weather pattern, which will produce similar drought conditions that ravished the country during the summer of 2009.

 

The BoM has announced that all of its modelling predictions indicate that the El Nino weather system will most likely make a return in October this year.

 

The El Nino weather pattern forms as a result of the warming of the central and eastern Pacific, resulting in significant shifts in weather patterns.

 

"Most of those models are saying probably neutral to El Nino conditions over the next few months but then out into spring a lot of the models are going for an El Nino event,” BoM’s manager of climate modeling Karl Braganza told the ABC.

 

"The drying over the south-west and the south-east has been occurring for a lot longer and it's not necessarily related to El Nino events."