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[5] [7] During the 1963–64 cyclone season the Australian Bureau of Meteorology started to use female names for tropical cyclones that occurred within the Australian region, before the New Zealand Meteorological Service's Fiji office also started using female names for tropical cyclones within the South Pacific during the 1969–70 cyclone season.
List of retired Philippine typhoon names List of retired South Pacific cyclone names In addition, one South Atlantic tropical cyclone name, Kamby , was retired before being used, for unknown reasons, and was replaced by Kurumí , which was used in 2020.
A South Pacific tropical cyclone is a non-frontal, low pressure system that has developed, ... List of retired South Pacific cyclone names; Atlantic hurricane season;
A replacement name is then submitted to the committee concerned and voted upon, but these names can be rejected and replaced with another name for various reasons: these reasons include the spelling and pronunciation of the name, the similarity to the name of a recent tropical cyclone or on another list of names, and the length of the name for ...
[48] [49] Four sets of tropical cyclone names are rotated annually with typhoon names stricken from the list should they do more than 1 billion pesos worth of damage to the Philippines and/or cause 300 or more deaths. [50] [51] Should the list of names for a given year prove insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list. [50]
1966 – a tropical cyclone that formed at sea southwest of Christmas Island. 1985 – a Category 3 hurricane that stayed in the open ocean. 2013 – a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone that caused minor effects on some South Pacific islands. 2015 – a Category 4 major hurricane, the strongest November Pacific hurricane on record.
A total of 21 tropical cyclones have peaked at Category 5 strength in the South Pacific tropical cyclone basin, which is denoted as the part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator and to the east of 160°E. 20 of these tropical cyclones have been classified as Category 5 on the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale, while Severe ...
Tropical cyclones are non-frontal, low-pressure systems that develop, within an environment of warm sea surface temperatures and little vertical wind shear aloft. [1] Within the Australian region, names are assigned from three pre-determined lists, to such systems, once they reach or exceed ten–minute sustained wind speeds of 65 km/h (40 mph), near the center, by either the Australian Bureau ...