Ambo is the Philippines' first tropical cyclone for 2020. These are the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC) and Central Pacific Hurricane Center, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Météo-France (MFR), Indonesia's Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), Papua New Guinea's National Weather Service, the Fiji Meteorological Service (FMS) as well as New Zealand's MetService. Blake subsequently became the first named storm of the year and made two landfalls in the Kimberley Region, bringing heavy rainfall throughout the region. It was also the most intense tropical cyclone in the 2020 part of the 2019-20 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. No named storms entered the basin from the Central Pacific, east of the International Date Line. Esther didn't strengthen much, but Ferdinand went on to become a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone, equivalent to a Category 2 Atlantic hurricane. The six lists above are used in rotation and re-cycled every six years, i.e., the 2019 list will be used again in 2025. The other half, 2020 began with the arrival of Tropical Depression 01F on November 22, near the Solomon Islands, which would later become Tropical Cyclone Rita. It have become extratropical on November 20. Tropical cyclone forecasts disseminated by the Na-tional Hurricane Center (NHC) and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) contain forecasts of the tropi-cal cyclone wind field through 3 days. Image. Iota was also the strongest storm in terms of wind speed, peaking with a strength of 160 mph or as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale. Of these, 102, including two subtropical cyclones in the South Atlantic Ocean and three tropical-like cyclone in the Mediterranean Sea, have been named by various weather agencies when they attained maximum sustained winds of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph). [1] The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) office in Darwin, which is the local Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre, began issuing advisories on the system late on 23 March while it was located about 85 km (50 mi) east-south-east of Wyndham, Western Australia. The 2019–20 Australian region cyclone season was a below average tropical cyclone season for the waters surrounding Australia between longitudes 90°E and 160°E. Morning skies appear clear in the left image, acquired around 11 a.m. local time. TROPICAL CYCLONE POTENTIAL BULLETIN ISSUED BY METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE OF NEW ZEALAND AT 2124 UTC 22-Dec-2020 CURRENT STATUS OF CYCLONE ACTIVITY There are presently no tropical cyclones in the Coral Sea or South Pacific areas. Afterwards, a record-breaking ten storms developed in the month of September. In the Eastern Pacific two tropical storms, Odalys and Polo, formed but intensified little. 17 December 2020, 1:45 am. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the response to tropical cyclones during the year. Consequently, activity also increased in the Australian basin with Esther and Ferdinand forming, with Ferdinand staying north of the Australian coastline its entire lifetime. Hurricane Eta in early November also caused $7 billion (2020 USD) in damage and was the deadliest storm of the season, causing over two hundred deaths as it crossed the vast majority of Central America and eventually made three more landfalls: one in Cuba, and two in Florida. FORECAST TO 1200 UTC THU 24-DEC-2020 No tropical cyclones are expected. [8] The cyclone had weakened to a marginal Category 3 at the time of landfall. An average Atlantic hurricane season features 12 tropical storms, 6 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes, and features an Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) count of 106. [14] Oil companies reported a loss of 500 tonnes during the economic quarter due to the cyclone. [10] Prior to the storm's landfall, officials issued a Red Alert for several communities. 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