Australia’s miserable La Niña summer could continue indefinitely

Climate warming has filled our atmosphere with extra moisture, according to new study. The enormous rain and record-breaking floods that have wrecked Australia’s east coast this year may be here to stay.

The conveyor belt of ocean currents is starting to’slow down,’ producing long-lasting La Nia weather patterns, according to a paper published in the Nature Climate Change journal by the University of New South Wales.

‘Australians may think of La Niña summers as cool and wet,’ the report said.

‘But under the long-term warming trend of climate change, their worst impacts will be flooding rain, especially over the east.’