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By GRAEME SINGLETON

Weathergurus tipan El Nino

ALERT, but not alarmed – that’s the advicefrom authorities as we head into the tradi-tional summer storm season.

While southern and western farmersmight not rejoice at the forecast for driertimes ahead, the prospect of clearer skieswill be welcome by thousands of flood-weary Mid North Coast residents.

According to the Bureau of Meteorologyan El Nino event has developed in the Pa-cific and that means drier than average con-ditions lie ahead for southeastern Australia.

Here on the Mid North Coast that meansthere is only a 30 per cent chance of ex-ceeding the long-term average rainfall be-tween now and the end of January.

The bureau is forecasting the total rain-fall in our area will be between 200-300mmbetween now and the beginning of Febru-ary.

After four flood events already this yearthat prediction is indeed welcome.

So far for 2009 the bureau has recorded1921.8mm of rain over 122 days in CoffsHarbour. By contrast the comparative long-term average is 1529.7mm over 127 days,which means we’ve already had 25 per centmore rain than we should expect to the be-ginning of November.

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Celebrity ball to bea runway successMANLY hearts will beat a little faster as they decide just what to wear for a cocktail with asummer twist dress theme, now that CharlotteDawson (pictured) has been announced as MCfor this month’s Endless Summer CelebrityGala Ball.

What to wear becomes important when youconsider Charlotte is one of the judges on Australia’s Next Top Model, broadcast on theFoxtel network.

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Tickets to the ball are $95 each, which includes a three-course dinner, beer and wine, are available at the Harbour Drive Westpac branch and online at www.stickytickets.com.au/2316

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