2024–25 Australian region cyclone season
| 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season | |
|---|---|
Season summary map | |
| Seasonal boundaries | |
| First system formed | 18 November 2024 |
| Last system dissipated | 14 May 2025 |
| Strongest storm | |
| Name | Zelia |
| • Maximum winds | 215 km/h (130 mph) (10-minute sustained) |
| • Lowest pressure | 927 hPa (mbar) |
| Seasonal statistics | |
| Tropical lows | 26 |
| Tropical cyclones | 12 |
| Severe tropical cyclones | 8 |
| Total fatalities | 54 total |
| Total damage | > $1.55 billion (2024 USD) |
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The 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season was the most active, and first above-average season in the Australian region since 2005–06. This season also had the highest amount of severe tropical cyclones since 2005-06, as well as being the first non-below average season since 2018–19. The season recorded an average amount of tropical cyclones, an above average amount of tropical lows. It was also the third consecutive season with at least five severe tropical cyclones. The season officially started on 1 November 2024 and ended on 30 April 2025, however, a tropical cyclone could form at any time between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025 and would count towards the season total. During the season, tropical cyclones are officially monitored by one of the three tropical cyclone warning centres (TCWCs) for the region which are operated by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, National Weather Service of Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics. The United States Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) and other national meteorological services including Météo-France and the Fiji Meteorological Service will also monitor the basin during the season.