Tropical Cyclone Cyclones Tracking Maps Hamish Larry Tracy Australian Australia Region South Pacific and South Indian Oceans including typhoons and hurricanes

Current and Recent Tropical Cyclone Activity

Track tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons for Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. The following maps show current tropical cyclone activity in the South Indian Ocean, South Pacific Ocean and Australian region.

Historical Tropical Cyclone Tracks

For historical tropical cyclone information scroll down the page to access over 3,100 individual and over 400 season tracks plotted on Google Maps. This website has the most comprehensive database of tropical storm tracks for the southern hemisphere.

Current tropical cyclone activity Southern Indian Ocean

Current tropical cyclone activity Southwest Pacific Ocean

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Current / Recent Storms (2009/10 season) :

Operational Tropical Cyclone Warnings
and tracking maps
Tropical Cyclone Pat, SPAC [from 07 Feb 2010] - [JTWC Warning] [JTWC Map]

Tropical Cyclone Oli, SPAC [01 - 06 Feb 2010] - [JTWC Warning] [JTWC Map]
Tropical Cyclone Fami, SIO [02 Feb 2010] - [JTWC Warning] [JTWC Map]
Tropical Cyclone Eleven, SIO [27 - 30 Jan 2010] - [JTWC Warning] [JTWC Map]
Tropical Cyclone Nisha, SPAC [27 - 30 Jan 2010] - [JTWC Warning] [JTWC Map]
Tropical Cyclone Olga, AU/SPAC [23 - 30 Jan 2010] - [JTWC Warning] [JTWC Map]
Tropical Cyclone Magda, AU/SIO [20 - 22 Jan 2010] - [JTWC Warning] [JTWC Map]
Tropical Cyclone Neville, AU/SPAC [20 Jan 2010] - [BoM Warnings] [BoM Map]
Tropical Cyclone Edzani, SIO [06 - 15 Jan 2010] - [JTWC Warnings] [JTWC Map]
Tropical Cyclone David, SIO [13 - 14 Dec and 20 - 25 Dec 2009] - [JTWC Warnings] [JTWC Map]
Tropical Cyclone Laurence, AU/SIO [13 - 23 Dec 2009] - [BoM Map] [JTWC Map]
Tropical Cyclone Mick, AU/SPAC [12 - 15 Dec 2009] - [JTWC Warnings] [JTWC Map]
Tropical Cyclone Cleo, SIO [07 - 11 and 13 - 14 Dec 2009] - [JTWC Warnings] [JTWC Map]
Tropical Cyclone Bongani, SIO [23 - 25 Nov 2009] - [JTWC Warnings] [JTWC Map]
Tropical Cyclone Anja, SIO [14 - 18 Nov 2009] - [JTWC Warnings] [JTWC Map]

2008/09 season

Tropical Cyclone Kirrily [26-28 Apr 2009] - [AU / SIO] - [Operational Track Map]
Tropical Cyclone Jade [4-10 Apr 2009] - [SIO] - [Operational Track Map]
Tropical Cyclone Lin [4-5 Apr 2009] - [SPAC] - [Operational Track Map]
Tropical Cyclone Izilda [24-26 Mar 2009] - [SIO] - [Operational Track Map]
Tropical Cyclone Jasper [23-25 Mar 2009] - [AU / SPAC] - [Operational Track Map]
Tropical Cyclone Ilsa [18-23 Mar 2009] - [AU / SIO] - [Operational Track Map]
Tropical Cyclone Ken [17-19 Mar 2009] - [SPAC] - [Operational Track Map]
Tropical Cyclone Joni [11-13 Mar 2009] - [SPAC] - [Operational Track Map]
Tropical Cyclone Hamish [5-12 Mar 2009] - [AU / SPAC] - [Operational Track Map]
[Tropical Cyclone Hamish Forum Discussion]

For earlier tropical cyclones browse the season summaries --->

Region Advisories and Notes:

Forum Discussion: [Weatherzone] [Australian Severe Weather]

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Operational Data :
Complete to end of 2008/09 season

Season Summary and Individual
Tropical Cyclone Track Maps

Operational data includes all tropical cyclones, tropical lows, tropical depressions and hybrid lows the various tropical cyclone warning agencies issued warnings and advisories for. Season and individual tracks are available from the 1997/98 season onwards.

OPER: Australia 90E - 180E
OPER: South Indian Ocean 15E - 135E
OPER: South Pacific Ocean 135E - 110W
OPER: Southern Hemisphere 15E - 110W

Information about the Southern Hemispshere basins and tropical cyclone intensities are available here.

Listing of all tropical storms: [Operational Data]

Global Tracks and Summaries:
Individual tropical cyclone event descriptions/overviews and operational track source data prepared monthly by Gary Padgett.

Latest global tracks: November 2009
Global Archives: September 1997 to June 2009

Weather Maps & Radar :

Bureau of Meteorology:
[Australian Region Radar]

[Australian Region MSL Analysis]
[Darwin MSL Analysis]
[Northern Aust Wind Analysis]
[00z SIO MSL Analysis]
[12z SIO MSL Analysis]
[00z SPAC MSL Analysis]
[12z SPAC MSL Analysis]

Fiji Meteorological Service:
[03z SPAC MSL Analysis]
[12z SPAC MSL Analysis]
[18z SPAC MSL Analysis]

More Weather Maps ...

Satellite Pictures :

Bureau of Meteorology:
[Infrared Australia][4 image loop]
[Visible Australia]
[East Aust / SW Pacific]
[West Aust / SE Indian]

University of Wisconsin:
[CIMSS Satellite Index]
AU 115E - 175W: [IR] [Enh IR] [WV]
AU 80E - 150E: [IR] [Enh IR] [WV]
SIO 30E - 150E: [IR] [Enh IR] [WV]
SPAC 165E-125W: [IR] [Enh IR] [WV]
SH 35E - 115W: [IR] [WV]

NPMOC (Yokosuka)
[Australian High-res VIS]

More Satellite Images ...

Southern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Warning Agencies :

  [Bureau of Meteorology]
  [Naval Oceanography Portal / JTWC]
  [Fiji Meteorological Service]
  [New Zealand Metservice]
  [Meteo France La Reunion]
  [Indonesian Agency For Meteorology]
  [UK Met Office]

Search for tropical cyclones, information and warnings :

Historical Data 1906/07 - 2007/08 :

Season Summary and Individual
Tropical Cyclone Track Maps

The complete set of individual and season track maps and data for all years of Bureau of Meteorology tropical cyclone data is available: 1906/07 to 2006/07 (864 cyclones). The dataset was recently re-issued by the BoM with extensive revisions.

BoM: Australia 90E - 160E

The complete set of individual and season track maps and data for all years of Joint Typhoon Warning Centre best tracks data is now available: 1944/45 to 2007/08 (1,825 cyclones).

JTWC: Australia 90E - 180E
JTWC: South Indian Ocean 15E - 135E
JTWC: South Pacific Ocean 135E - 110W
JTWC: Southern Hemisphere 15E - 110W

Listings of all tropical cyclones: [BoM data] [JTWC data]

View the Plotting Notes which define the southern hemisphere warning regions, and compare the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale with the US Saffin/Simpson Hurricane intensity scale.

Google Maps are utilised which allows you to change the map background and zoom into areas of interest. Click the markers on the season maps to load individual maps or select from the tables. You can also toggle on and off the markers, lat/long grid or date labels.

Note that IE7 may be slow to display season maps (depending on your computer) - however they work very well on Firefox. I'd be interested to know of any problems with other browsers. Please send your feedback to Michael Bath.

Other Information

A review of Global Tropical Cyclone Terminology by Gary Padgett August 2009
Australian Tropical Cyclone Names List by Bureau of Meteorology
NRL Monterey Marine Meteorology Division
Australian Tropical Cyclone Impacts by Jeff Callaghan, Bureau of Meteorology: [East Coast] [Gulf of Carpentaria]
Southern Hemisphere Statistics by Patrick Hoareau
Links to other Australian and International tropical cyclone, hurricane and typhoon information

Acknowledgements:

Southern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone tracks developed by Michael Bath. If you have any comments, suggestions for new maps, requests for custom maps or data, or other ideas please contact me.

Current activity maps on this page are from Hurricanes, Typhoons & Tropical Cyclones by Thomas R. Metcalf.
BoM data and warnings obtained from the Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne.
JTWC data obtained from Joint Typhoon Warning Centre Best Tracks. Tropical Advisories sourced from the Naval Oceanography Portal / Joint Typhoon Warning Centre. Advisory list subscriptions
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