The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has officially declared that El Niño is underway in the Pacific Ocean. Both outlets report that weather experts made the declaration based on current ocean and atmospheric conditions consistent with El Niño. They also note that forecasting the impacts remains difficult because each El Niño event differs in its characteristics and timing, meaning there is no guaranteed, identical outcome for Australia. As a result, while El Niño can influence climate patterns across the region, the magnitude and specific effects for Australia may vary from one event to another. The reports emphasize that the same conditions do not necessarily produce the same impacts every time, so uncertainty remains around how strongly Australia could be affected during this period. No additional details are provided in the excerpts about specific forecasts, severity, or which Australian regions may experience particular impacts, only that the phenomenon is now officially in place and its consequences cannot be reliably predicted to be uniform.