Winter is officially over.
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And while the warmer spring weather is expected to continue on the Border and in the North East for the first week of spring, the season is forecast to bring cooler and cloudier days.
The Bureau of Meteorology climate operations manager Andrew Watkins said the outlook for spring was being largely driven by changes in sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific and Indian oceans.
"Most long-range forecasts analysed by the bureau, including from our own climate model, are indicating a La Nina could develop in the spring, which typically results in above-average winter-spring rainfall for Australia, particularly across eastern, central and northern regions," he said.
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"A La Nina also typically brings cooler and cloudier days." Dr Watkins said spring was typically a time of year when outlook models had a higher reliability.
"We start to see some of our main climate drivers locking in, which gives more certainty about what our weather patterns will be like in the coming months," he said.
