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South Pacific Official Warnings and Forecasts

Fiji Meteorological Service - homepage
» RSMC Nadi - Fiji Warnings and Advisories (tropics area covering Eq-25S, 160E-120W)
» see also SW Pacific forecasts for the "Islands" Marine Bulletin

Australia Bureau of Meteorology - homepage
» Current Tropical Cyclones - with links to 3-day outlooks
» see also Weekly Tropical Climate Note (issued Tuesday afternoon)
» National Warnings Summary including Ocean Wind Warnings
» High Seas Forecasts - NE and SE for western Tasman Sea

New Zealand MetService - homepage
» NZ MetService Marine Warnings (coastal and oceanic covering 25S-55S, 150E-120W)
» High Seas Forecasts - Subtropic, Forties, Pacific and Southern

High Seas forecasts and warnings also available via OMM-JCOMM-GMDSS website Metarea XIV(NZ/Fiji) and Metarea X (Aus)

Text Bulletins

Grouped by issuing centre - Ohio State University
» Nadi = NFFN, Brisbane = ABRF, Darwin = ADRM, Perth = APRF, Wellington/Kelburn = NZKL
Grouped by header code - NOAA

Imagery, Tracks and Data

NRL Tropical Cyclone Page - with warnings/tracks/imagery
Joint Typhoon Warning Centre - with forecast tracks (Pacific/Indian Oceans)
US National Hurricane Center - forecasts and advisories
WMO Severe Weather Information Centre - links to official obs+warnings

UK Met Office forecast tracks - S.Pacific & SE.Indian, also via NOAA
NOAA Real-Time TC Products - with tracks, imagery and NWP data
NCEP Tropical and Extratropical Cyclone Tracks and Verification - NOAA Environmental Modelling Center
TC track and intensity forecasts and guidance - for active TC's, from MIT

Uni of Wisconsin CIMSS - TC info and imagery
» including Advanced Dvorak Technique and real-time ADT Estimates - research product
NASA TRMM - Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission - rainfall analyses for tropical cyclones and hurricanes
» see also: 3hr/week global rainfall maps and regional 3hr/week pacific rainfall maps

Stormpulse - nice site to track Atlantic storms/hurricanes

Monitoring

Streamline analyses - from NOAA - or straight to latest Pacific analysis (to 30S)
BoM Weather maps - including gradient wind/streamline analysis

Ocean surface wind mosaics for NZ and Oceanic areas here at W⁴ - data sourced via NOAA (see below)
ASCAT winds via NOAA - 20x30deg and 10x15deg tiles, also with storm data
ASCAT winds via KNMI - 25km and 12.5km resolution
WindSAT winds via NOAA - 20x30deg tiles, also with storm data

CIMSS satellite derived real-time data: East Australia (MTSAT) and SE Pacific (GOES-W) - Wisconsin Uni.
Satellite derived cloud-track winds - from NRL

Cyclone Phase Evolution - analysis and forecasts from several global models
Maximum Potential Hurricane Intensity - maps of potential min pressure and max winds - COLA
Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential - NOAA / AOML
» or direct to Australian/Southwest Pacific maps
Global TC Probability in the next two weeks - EXPERIMENTAL product - Paul Roundy, Uni of Albany

SOI - Southern Oscillation Index and forecast ENSO conditions - BoM
MJO - Madden-Julian Oscillation: daily plots via NOAA also the BoM MJO monitoring page
» see also: MJO info/plots from Matthew Wheeler at CAWCR (BoM/CSIRO) incl mode plots with links to OLR Anomolies and animations

Southern Hemisphere Blocking - NOAA

Pacific Island Nations

New Caledonia - forecasts and warnings in french from Météo-France
Western Samoa - forecasts and warnings
American Samoa - forecasts and warnings
Tonga - forecasts and warnings
Cook Islands - with forecasts
Tuvalu - with weather bulletin for Tuvalu issued by Nadi
French Polynesia - forecasts and warnings in french from Météo-France

Reference

Worldwide official TC names at WMO - lists also at UKMO and NWS NHC

Australia TC Intensity - from BoM, also with Beaufort Scale table and comparison with US category
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale - from US National Weather Service
Tropical Cyclone Scales - info and comparisons via Wikipedia

Wikipedia Tropical Cyclone Page - loads of info! with cumulative track maps
» also with list of SH Tropical Cyclone Season pages

Historical TC's in the Southern Hemisphere - 1969 to 2007 - via bom.gov.au

WMO Tropical Cyclone Programme - incl reports and other publications