As summer draws to a close – one day longer than usual thanks to a leap year – it was likely not what you expected. Much of 2023 was spent warning of the hot and dry summer to come as El Nino approached and then arrived, and yet, the season wasn’t as severe or extreme as we had prepared for.
Australian meteorologists were even careful to call it too early, declaring an El Nino event on September 19 after months of close calls, and several months after other international agencies had already called it.
But then the summer months arrived, filled with a confusing mix of weather…