I just found out that Australia waters affect our weather with La Nino, and El nina. We are all in this world together.

​Good morning from Dougherty Iowa still having thick fog.  The temperature is 26F (-3C) so the surfaces are slippery with freezing from the fog.  High today is only 37F(3C) low tonight of 25F(-4C)  but looking ahead next week it will be cold I see a -6F (-21C) one night. But on the bright side we might have the sun shining and out. Australia’s weather for New Year’s Eve which is their time now.  Partly sunny with a high of 79F ( 26C). But their weekend temperature will be 97F (36 C).  Stay warm, stay cool wherever you are.

I found this article about El Nino, and La Nina. I have always been wondering what they mean.  Hope this helps with your understanding.  What I found out interesting that Australia waters, effect El Nino.  It proves we are all together with our planet.
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Goodbye El Niño, Hello La Niña
Looking at the forecast for the winter, we anticipate a La Niña through the winter—and sure enough, a weak La Niña is already starting to develop. The La Niña should help to bring a few cold shots southward, more so than we’ve seen during the past couple of winters. Even with these cold periods, we still expect much of the U.S. and Canada to end up with above-average winter temperatures overall.
I was totally surprised to read this about El Nina weather from our Australia continent. This helps cause the El Nino every 3 to 7 years, the easterly trade winds in the Pacific weaken and allow the pool of warm water to drift from Australia to the western coast of South America, often triggering heavy rains there. 
What about La Nina? La Niña is essentially the opposite of El Niño. La Niña refers to the periodic cooling of ocean surface temperatures in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific that occurs every 3 to 5 years or so. The cool water can suppress rain-producing clouds, which leads to dry conditions.
Conversely, the stronger the La Niña, the more severe the droughts. The La Niña of 2009, for example, created severe drought in much of the world, causing an agricultural crisis in some areas. This will affect our gardening for next year for sure. 
Chill out! Our January weather forecast is here. Notably, the La Niña weather pattern is moving across North America. What does this mean for us weather-wise?

1. Looking at January as a whole, we expect near- to above-average temperatures across New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and Florida. The Appalachians, Southeast, Great Lakes, and Ohio Valley will tend to be on the colder side of average. We also anticipate some colder weather from the Upper Midwest through the northern Plains, the Northern Rockies, and the Pacific Northwest. Meanwhile, it will be on the warmer side from the southern Plains westward to California.

Where’s the Snow?
For precipitation in the month of January, it will tend to be on the drier side across the Deep South, Ohio Valley, Great Lakes, and into the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Above-average precipitation is predicted across the Southeast. Precipitation will tend to be closer to average from the Upper Midwest through the Heartland and southern Plains. A fairly large area of above-average precipitation will likely develop from the High Plains westward through the Rockies and all through the West.
El Niño and La Niña are two faces of a large weather phenomenon.
Q. What is El Niño?
A. El Niño is a climate phenomenon that involves the periodic warming of sea-surface temperatures across the central and east-central equatorial Pacific.
This helps cause the El Nino every 3 to 7 years, the easterly trade winds in the Pacific weaken and allow the pool of warm water to drift from Australia to the western coast of South America, often triggering heavy rains there.
Dreaming of El Niño Winter
This vast pool of warm water is thought to set off a chain reaction that can affect jet stream and weather patterns around the world, especially in the winter months in the northern hemisphere. El Niño is sometimes referred to as ENSO for El Niño–Southern Oscillation. The Southern Oscillation is a seesaw of air pressures on the eastern and western halves of the Pacific. See El Niño Pattern chart.
Q. What is La Niña?
A. La Niña is essentially the opposite of El Niño. La Niña refers to the periodic cooling of ocean surface temperatures in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific that occurs every 3 to 5 years or so. The cool water can suppress rain-producing clouds, which leads to dry conditions.
Q. What do the terms “El Niño” and “La Niña” mean?
A. Peruvian fishermen first noticed the effects of a new El Niño at Christmas time, when storminess off the coast reduced the supply of fish. “El Niño” is Spanish for “the boy child,” and is used to refer to the Baby Jesus. The name La Niña (“the girl child”) was coined to deliberately represent the opposite of El Niño.
Q. How do these weather events affect winter weather?
A. Because even the most dedicated scientists do not thoroughly understand El Niño and La Niña (we do not know, for instance, why the trade winds suddenly die down and allow the warm water pool to move eastward), we can only describe certain tendencies in the weather.
In the past, El Niño has often brought heavy rains to southern California and to a portion of the South from Atlanta to Cape Hatteras; it can bring relatively mild winter temperatures to the northern third of the country. However, these effects are not consistent in every El Niño event on record.
Conversely, the stronger the La Niña, the more severe the droughts. The La Niña of 2009, for example, created severe drought in much of the world, causing an agricultural crisis in some areas. This will affect our gardening for next year for sure. 
Taken from https://www.almanac.com/what-el-nino-and-la-nina
Taken from https://www.almanac.com/january-forecast
Till next time this is Becky Litterer, Becky’s Greenhouse, Dougherty Iowa [email protected]  641-794-3337  cell 641-903-9365