January is climatologically the warmest and 2nd wettest month of the year for Australia. January 2025 was the second warmest January in 75 years (2019) and the driest January in 30 years. 🦘
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Their success at messaging ENSO and IOD typical impacts (in recent decades), meant they were finding that media and people were using the status as both to make a crude seasonal forecast, and the actual seasonal forecast was overlooked.
They are still producing the plots, and offered me a weekly email update service (via work), which I've taken them up on.
I gave them feedback about the usefulness of the plots.
We are having the mildest winter i can remember in our area. I'd hardly call it winter.