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2 Only systems that formed either before or on December 31, 2016 are counted in the seasonal totals. 3 The wind speeds for this tropical cyclone/basin are based on the IMD scale which uses 3-minute sustained winds. 4 The wind speeds for this tropical cyclone/basin are based on the Saffir–Simpson scale which uses 1-minute sustained winds.
Cyclone Raquel entering the basin on July 2, 2015. As the 2015–16 tropical cyclone year opened on July 1, Tropical Cyclone Raquel was located in the Australian region to the north-west of Honiara. [52] Over the next 24 hours, the system recurved eastwards and weakened into a tropical depression, as it entered the basin on July 2. [53]
Winston was, at the time, the costliest tropical cyclone on record in the South Pacific basin, until it was surpassed by Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023. [1] The system was first noted as a tropical disturbance on 7 February 2016, when it was located to the northwest of Port Vila , Vanuatu .
The 2016–17 South Pacific cyclone season was the least active South Pacific cyclone season ... If a tropical cyclone moves out of the basin and into the Australian ...
The 2016 Pacific hurricane season was tied as the fifth-most active Pacific hurricane season on record, alongside the 2014 season. Throughout the course of the year, a total of 22 named storms, 13 hurricanes and six major hurricanes were observed within the basin.
Hurricane Pali was the earliest-forming Pacific hurricane on record, being the first Pacific hurricane to occur in January since Hurricane Ekeka of 1992.The first tropical cyclone of the 2016 Pacific hurricane season, Pali originated as an area of low pressure within a persistent trough, near the equator on January 6, 2016.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has a rotating list of names for each Tropical Cyclone basin. Before the system was developed, hurricanes were named arbitrarily – an Atlantic storm ...
Tropical Storm Colin was the earliest third named storm in the Atlantic basin on record for four years, until it was surpassed by Tropical Storm Cristobal in 2020. An atypical, poorly organized tropical cyclone, Colin developed from a low pressure area over the Gulf of Mexico near the northern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula late on June 5, 2016.