2025–26 South Pacific cyclone season
| 2025–26 South Pacific cyclone season | |
|---|---|
Season summary map | |
| Seasonal boundaries | |
| First system formed | 2 December 2025 |
| Last system dissipated | Season ongoing |
| Strongest storm | |
| Name | Urmil |
| • Maximum winds | 95 km/h (60 mph) (10-minute sustained) |
| • Lowest pressure | 981 hPa (mbar) |
| Seasonal statistics | |
| Total disturbances | 9 |
| Total depressions | 5 |
| Tropical cyclones | 1 |
| Severe tropical cyclones | 0 |
| Total fatalities | 10 total |
| Total damage | Unknown |
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The 2025–26 South Pacific cyclone season includes the basin's latest-ever first recorded tropical cyclone, Urmil, breaking the record set by Tropical Cyclone Bart during the 2016-17 season. Despite this, it is an ongoing cyclone season in the South Pacific Ocean to the east of 160°E. 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 the Fiji Meteorological Service, Australian Bureau of Meteorology and New Zealand's MetService. The United States Armed Forces through the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) will also monitor the basin and issue unofficial warnings for American interests. The FMS attaches a number and an F suffix to tropical disturbances that form in or move into the basin while the JTWC designates significant tropical cyclones with a number and a P suffix. The BoM, FMS and MetService all use the Australian Tropical Cyclone Intensity Scale and estimate windspeeds with a period of approximately ten minutes, while the JTWC estimates sustained winds over a 1-minute period, which are subsequently compared to the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS).