CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia has experienced its driest October in more than two decades, attributed to the El Nino weather pattern, resulting in adverse impacts on crop yields in one of the world’s largest wheat exporting nations, according to the national weather bureau’s announcement on Wednesday.
In its routine drought report, the Bureau of Meteorology disclosed that last month marked Australia’s driest October since 2002, with rainfall levels plummeting to 65% below the average from 1961 to 1990.
The report highlighted that every region of Australia, except the state of Victoria, witnessed below-average rainfall. Western Australia, the nation’s most significant grain-exporting region, experienced its driest October ever recorded.
After three years of bountiful rainfall, the El Nino weather phenomenon ushered in hot
