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The 2015–16 Australian region cyclone season will be the period of the year when most tropical cyclones form within the Southern Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans between 90°E and 160°E. The season will officially run from 1 November 2015 to 30 April 2016, however a tropical cyclone could form at any time between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2016 and would count towards the season total. During the season, tropical cyclones will be officially monitored, by one of the five Tropical Cyclone Warning Centres (TCWCs) that operate in this region. Three of the five centres are operated by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) in Perth, Darwin, and Brisbane, while the other two are operated by the National Weather Service of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby and the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics in Jakarta, Indonesia. The United States Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) and other national meteorological services including Météo-France will also monitor the basin during the season.
A precursor tropical depression moved into the Australian region from the South Pacific basin and became Tropical Cyclone Raquel late on 30 June (locally early on 1 July).
Storm names
TCWC Jakarta
TCWC Jakarta monitor Tropical Cyclones from the Equator to 11S and from 90E to 145E. Should a Tropical Depression reach Tropical Cyclone strength within TCWC Jakarta's Area of Responsibility then it will be assigned the next name from the following list.[1]
Cempaka (unused) | Dahlia (unused) | Flamboyan (unused) | Kenanga (unused) | Lili (unused) |
Mawar (unused) | Seroja (unused) | Teratai (unused) | Anggrek (unused) | Bakung (unused) |
TCWC Port Moresby
Tropical cyclones that develop north of 11°S between 151°E and 160°E are assigned names by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Tropical cyclone formation in this area is rare, with no cyclones being named in it since 2007.[2] As names are assigned in a random order the whole list is shown below.
Alu (unused) | Buri (unused) | Dodo (unused) | Emau (unused) | Fere (unused) |
Hibu (unused) | Ila (unused) | Kama (unused) | Lobu (unused) | Maila (unused) |
Bureau of Meteorology
Since the start of the 2008–09 season, there has only been one list that the Bureau of Meteorology have assigned names to tropical cyclones from.[1] However the Bureau of Meteorology still operates the various TCWCs in Perth, Darwin & Brisbane. They monitor all tropical cyclones that form within the Australian region, including when tropical cyclones exist in either TCWC Jakarta's or Port Moresby's area of responsibility.
Stan (unused) | Tatiana (unused) | Uriah (unused) | Yvette (unused) | Alfred (unused) | Blanche (unused) | Caleb (unused) |
Debbie (unused) | Ernie (unused) | Frances (unused) | Greg (unused) | Hilda (unused) | Isobel (unused) | Joyce (unused) |
See also
- List of Southern Hemisphere cyclone seasons
- Atlantic hurricane seasons: 2015, 2016
- Pacific hurricane seasons: 2015, 2016
- Pacific typhoon seasons: 2015, 2016
- North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons: 2015, 2016
- 2015–16 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
- 2015–16 South Pacific cyclone season
- South Atlantic tropical cyclone
References
- ^ a b "Tropical Cyclone Operational plan for the South Pacific & Southeast indian Ocean, 2012 Edition" (PDF). WMO. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
- ^ Gary Padgett (2008). "Monthly Global Tropical Cyclone Summary October". Australian Severe Weather. Retrieved 2013-07-01.