1975–76 Australian region cyclone season
cyclone season in the Australian region
The 1975–76 Australian region cyclone season was an above average tropical cyclone season.
Systems
Severe Tropical Cyclone Ray
Ray developed from a low pressure area located west of Java. Ray threatened Cocos Island for two days while it was developing. The system eventually degenerated over the central Indian Ocean.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Joan
On the morning of 30 November, satellite imagery showed a large cloud mass in the Timor Sea. The satellite photograph received on the morning of 1 December showed that significant organization had occurred in the cloud mass during the previous 24 hours. It was deemed at 0115 UTC that the system be named the developing cyclone Joan, located about 310 km west-northwest of Darwin. Joan's movement in the following 48 hours was towards the southwest at an average 5 km/h. The first evidence of the increasing strength of Joan came as the cyclone moved west-southwest past the northernmost areas of Western Australia on 3 December. The cyclone's generally west-southwesterly track after 2 December took it away from the coast until 0900 6 December when it was about 420 km north of Port Hedland and the system turned southward.
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