Cyclone. Hazards Skip to Navigation | Skip to Content Topic Home Cyclone Cyclone Basics Cyclone Capabilities.
Get The Facts - Cyclones. Tropical Cyclone Names. Contents Atlantic Names Atlantic Pronunciation Guide (PDF) Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms had been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center.
They are now maintained and updated through a strict procedure by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. The six lists above are used in rotation and re-cycled every six years, i.e., the 2014 list will be used again in 2020. May 1974: The Storm Of Storms. When was the last big swell you remember hitting our beaches?
Was it the epic surf we had in March or the massive six metre waves in June 2007 that pushed the Pasha Bulker freighter onto Nobbys Beach in Newcastle? I will never forget a crazy storm in May 1997, when I watched the ‘temporary’ lifeguard shed at Tamarama* get tossed around and waves smashed into the Tama Café. The maximum recorded wave height a few kilometres offshore of Sydney was fourteen metres during that storm!