Numbers of Australian Tropical Cyclones have declined over 40 years.

I've been hearing alot of talk about Global Warming causing the rise in number of
violent super storm cells such as Hurricanes and Cyclones, and that it will only get worse from here.
So I checked with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology site for some stats and here they are.

Year Cyclones Severe

71 ... 4 ... 1
72 ... 4 ... 0
73 ... 16 ... 3
74 ... 13 ... 2
75... 14 ... 1
76 ... 22 ... ?
77 ... 14 ... 2
78 ... 8 ... 1
79 ... 14 ... 3
80 ... 19 ... 7
Decade=128 Cyclones including 20 Severe Cyclones

81 ... 12... 3
82 ... 12 ... 6
83 ... 14 ... 7
84 ... 17 ... 10
85 ... 14 ... 9
86... 14 ... 5
87 ... 7 ... 3
88 ... 6 ... 3
89 ... 13 ... 3
90 ... 13 ... 4
Decade=122 Cyclones including 53 Severe Cyclones

91 ... 9 ... 6
92 ... 11 ... 4
93 ... 10 ... 5
94 ... 11 ...5
95 ... 9 ... 5
96 ... 16 ... 5
97 ... 11 ... 5
98 ... 12 ... 5
99 ... 11 ... 7
2000 ... 11 ... 5
Decade=111 Cyclones including 52 Severe Cyclones

01 ... 10 ... 2
02 ... 8 ... 3
03 ... 9 ... 4
04 ... 10 ... 3
05 ... 10 ... 5
06 ... 12 ... 6
07 ... 10 ... 3
08 ... 9 ... 2
09 ... 10 ... 5
10 ... 8 ... 2
Decade=96 Cyclones including 35 Severe Cyclones


Ok so as you can all see the rate of both severity and frequency of Tropical Cyclones in Australia
have fallen from the 1970's. Some of the data from the 1970's is incomplete and may be higher than
what is recorded.
www.bom.gov.au

reply to post by weirdguy


So you are saying ,nothing to see here ,move along ..:>)

reply to post by the2ofusr1


lol I hit enter after typing the heading.

reply to post by weirdguy


I figured you would get back with your data ...yea and I think if you look at hurricanes making land fall in North America you will see the same thing ..I think that that big ball of fire in the sky has the biggest influence and right now She is pretty quiet when she should be very active ...

Awesome find. Thanks for that!!