2025–26 Australian region cyclone season
| 2025–26 Australian region cyclone season | |
|---|---|
Season summary map | |
| Seasonal boundaries | |
| First system formed | 15 July 2025 |
| Last system dissipated | Season ongoing |
| Strongest storm | |
| Name | Fina |
| • Maximum winds | 195 km/h (120 mph) (10-minute sustained) |
| • Lowest pressure | 938 hPa (mbar) |
| Seasonal statistics | |
| Tropical lows | 21 |
| Tropical cyclones | 9 |
| Severe tropical cyclones | 5 |
| Total fatalities | 1 |
| Total damage | > $170,000 (2025 USD) |
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The 2025–26 Australian region cyclone season is an ongoing weather event within the southern hemisphere. The season officially started on 1 November 2025 and will end on 30 April 2026, however, a tropical cyclone could form at any time between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026 and would count towards the season total. During the season, tropical cyclones will be 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.
The season began on 15 July 2025, with the formation of Tropical Low 01. In November, the first named storm of the season, Fina, caused moderate wind damage and power outages in Darwin, before striking the Kimberley Coast as a category 3 tropical cyclone. In December, Cyclone Hayley struck the Dampier Peninsula, causing roof damage to homes in several communities. The next month, Cyclone Luana struck the same region, bringing similar impacts while Cyclone Koji caused severe flooding across northern Queensland. In February, Cyclone Mitchell brought significant impacts to agriculture in Western Australia.