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Severe Tropical Cyclone Osea was the second of seven cyclones to affect French Polynesia during the 1997–98 South Pacific cyclone season.The fourth tropical cyclone and second severe tropical cyclone of the very active season, Osea began as a low that formed on November 22, and the storm initially remained weak.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Wasa–Arthur was the first major tropical cyclone to affect French Polynesia and Tahiti since the 1982–83 season.The system was first noted on 3 December 1991, as a shallow tropical depression that was embedded within the monsoon trough, to the north of the Cook Island: Rarotonga.
Category 2 tropical cyclone: 110 km/h (70 mph) 975 hPa (28.79 inHg) French Polynesia: Minor: None [60] Veli: February 1 – 3, 1998: Category 2 tropical cyclone: 100 km/h (65 mph) 985 hPa (29.09 inHg) French Polynesia: Minor: None [60] Cora: December 23 – 28, 1998: Category 3 severe tropical cyclone: 140 km/h (85 mph) 960 hPa (28.35 inHg ...
Pages in category "Tropical cyclones in French Polynesia" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... 1900–1940 South Pacific cyclone seasons;
2016–17 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season 2: Madagascar: 2 1 None None 2015–16 South Pacific cyclone season 1: Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, Vanuatu, Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Wallis and Futuna, Samoan Islands: 10 5 $1.4 billion 46 2016–17 South Pacific cyclone season 2: Fiji: 5 0 $4.7 million None
June 2–9, 1864 – A tropical cyclone impacted Valparaíso in Chile. [3] January 25 – February 3, 1865 – A tropical cyclone impacted Samoa and the Southern Cook Islands. [6] February 2–3, 1865 – A tropical cyclone caused major damage to French Polynesia, including on the Leeward Islands, Tahiti and the Austral Islands. [7] [11]
Within the reanalysis, they found that Nisha-Orama was the strongest tropical cyclone to impact French Polynesia on record and had peaked with 10-minute sustained wind speeds of 228 km/h (142 mph) and a minimum pressure of 898 hPa (26.52 inHg). [2]
Shortly thereafter, wind shear increased in relation to an approaching trough, resulting in Vicky weakening to a tropical depression. Over the following several days, the depression drifted southward before entering the mid-latitude westerlies and re-intensifying into a strong extratropical cyclone well to the south of French Polynesia. [2]