SYDNEY: Australia on Tuesday warned of a likely El Niño weather pattern this year, delivering warmer, drier days to a country vulnerable to fierce bushfires.

The chance of this weather phenomenon forming over the Pacific Ocean this year has climbed to 70 percent, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said, reaching its bar for declaring an "El Niño alert."

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