I expect the BOM will tell us at the start of 2018 that 2017 was the hottest year on record and the same the year after that. One need pay little regard to an organization that can't get a weeks weather forecast correct but are smug enough to tell us we can alter the weather by producing less CO2.

Thank you, Jennifer, for giving us the facts again, when we are bombarded with lies by the fraud promoters, like the BOM.
Until we have a Royal Commission into the climate fraud, we will have truthful scientists, like Jennifer, crying in the wilderness.
Thanks for your efforts, Jennifer Marohasy

Well the BOM has been predicting its going to be a dry year in southeast Australia every year for the last 5 years.

Every year of those 5 years has been wetter than average. The BOM concludes that those 5 years are just a statistical anomaly.

But, some future year is bound to be drier than average. Hence the media will report the BOM prediction and assumptions are correct.

Don't worry plantagenet, the BOM are working on a justification to increase the rainfall record for all past years.

They will soon be able to confirm the last 5 years were actually below the "corrected" average.

They have got away with doing it with temperature, so why not rainfall.

Possibly the global weird weather is altering normal wind and heat systems ? BoM doesn't say "wetter" but percent chances of drier / wetter.

Sell your beach front real estate!