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Storm of 1897; Pre-1900 South Pacific cyclone seasons; 1900–1940 South Pacific cyclone seasons; 1929 New Zealand cyclone; 1936 New Zealand cyclone; 1940s South Pacific cyclone seasons; 1950s South Pacific cyclone seasons; 1960s South Pacific cyclone seasons
[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.
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 ...
Tropical cyclones are named to avoid confusion with the public and streamline communications, as more than one tropical cyclone can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists, [1] and are usually assigned to tropical cyclones with one-, three- or ten-minute windspeeds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph). However, standards ...
Tropical cyclones are named for historical reasons and so as to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one tropical cyclone can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. They are usually assigned to tropical cyclones with one-, three-, or ten-minute windspeeds of at least 65 km/h (40 mph).
The costliest tropical cyclone in New Zealand's history was Cyclone Bola which hit the country in 1988. More than 12 inches (300 mm) of rain hit northern New Zealand with that storm, with ...
Since 1953, tropical storms that originate in the Atlantic Ocean have been identified by name. There are six lists of 21 names each, and the lists are rotated so that the 2024 list of names will ...
2011 – severe tropical cyclone that brought heavy rainfall to New Zealand as an extratropical cyclone. Zena (2016) – a Category 2 tropical cyclone that passed near Fiji. Zeta; 2005 – an end-of-the-year storm that remained out at sea; one of only two Atlantic tropical cyclones on record to span two calendar years.