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RIVERINA farmers may be in for a tough summer with climate scientists predicting the return of El Nino weather patterns. "You can see a warming in the eastern Pacific, which looks to be a classic (El Nino) event," said Doctor Agus Santoso, an El Nino modeller at the University of NSW's Climate Change Research centre. El Nino weather patterns typically bring drier and hotter than average conditions to south-eastern Australia and in the past have led to prolonged drought periods.

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