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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.
[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]
Hutchings also examined where tropical cyclones originated from in the South Pacific and claimed that the place where most tropical cyclones develop could be accurately determined. [2] [4] The paper also drew attention to a marked difference in the tracks of South Pacific tropical cyclones and systems in other basins. [4]
The following is a list of tropical cyclones by year. Since the year 957, there have been at least 12,791 recorded tropical or subtropical cyclones in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, which are known as basins. Collectively, tropical cyclones caused more than US$1.2 trillion in damage, unadjusted for inflation, and have killed more ...
Hurricane Patricia in the northeast Pacific Ocean [15] Most intense (10-minute maximum sustained winds) 78.2 m/s (175 mph; 152.0 kn; 282 km/h) February 20, 2016: Cyclone Winston in the south Pacific Ocean [16] Most intense (lowest central pressure) 870 mb (870.0 hPa; 25.7 inHg) October 12, 1979: Typhoon Tip in the northwest Pacific Ocean [17] [18]
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 ...
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.
The following are tropical cyclones that formed in the South Pacific Ocean, east of 160°E, that have articles on Wikipedia. This category also includes tropical depressions which have justified having articles written about them. For south Pacific Ocean tropical cyclones by year, see Category:South Pacific cyclone seasons.