The effects of El Niño and La Niña in your location

Very miniscule, and the supposed effects are not very consistent.

Foreca:

Where I live, El Niño and La Niña play a significant role in the weather (as well as the associated agricultural productivity).
At the El Niño phase, the cooler West Pacific waters produce less precipitation and cloud cover. This creates mild, dry winters and hot, very dry summers full of sun, bushfires and drought; just like 2023.
During La Nina, the warmer waters in the West Pacific increase evaporation, cloud cover and moisture. This results in cold, wet winters and warm, wet summers with cloud, downpours and floods; just like 2022.
Neutral phase brings intermediate conditions: cool winters and very warm summers with moderate precipitation and sunshine year-round.

IMO, I would like either like a consistent neutral phase; or a La Niña Summer + El Niño winter combination; like early 2023.

La Niña: Wetter, cloudier and cooler than normal; occasionally you can get a very stable, warmer than average month (see Jan 2022)
El Niño: Nothing, because it's weak and fake.

Australia's weather patterns and cycles are heavily influenced by ENSO

It's etched in the national psyche, the cycle of droughts and floods
Everyone knows of this poem written 115 years ago which pretty well sums it all up.

'MY COUNTRY'
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded Lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens,
Is running in your veins;
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies -
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains,
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me.

The tragic ring-barked forests
Stark white beneath the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
An orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the crimson soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart around us
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold;
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown Country
My homing thoughts will fly.

Written by Dorothea MacKellar 1885-1967; published 1908; written 1906

Generally: Niña wet (especially with -IOD), Niño dry (especially with +IOD)

An article re the 'Claytons' El Nino in SE AU
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-07/wet-el-nino-weather-pattern-explained-bureau-of-meteorology/103289232?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web

Gonna have to apply that for Sydney for this summer so far. 😤

It appears that El Nino is more 'effective' for northwestern Australia. The east coast has been drenching since Nov...What el nino!? Lmao

Luckily the brunt of the heavy rain has been more fixated in the northeast though.

Makes perfect sense! After all, El Nino has been on the negligible end either way for the eastern seaboard (2014-15 El Nino summers had decent amount of rain I remember). So El Nino doesn't really dry up things much here in summer. Rather, it's the positive Indian Ocean Dipole that gives the most driest, parched asf, hot weather (i.e. the 2019-20 angry summer). This current El Nino only "moderated" the crazy La Nina rainfall. We're still getting rain, like nearly every other day, but it isn't very intense and stubborn (as it is during a La Nina).

Also, this month has been mostly cloudy thus far. Warm rain lovers will love this month because it's raining and the temp is like 26C. It's actually pretty nice, ngl. 😜