Australia Wheat Areas Seen Drier Through Winter as El Nino Looms
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Wheat-growing regions in Australia are set for a drier winter amid a looming El Nino event, which can bring below-average rain to the country’s east and south.
The odds for below-average rainfall is more than 60 percent from June to August in parts of southern Western Australia, most of South Australia, southern Queensland, New South Wales and northern Victoria, the Bureau of Meteorology said today. The bureau in April saw a 60 percent probability of a wetter May to July in southern Western Australia and equal chances of a wetter or drier-than-normal three months for most of the country.