Talk:1969–70 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season

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Note surrounding the names[edit]

Since several of the names used in a Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons pre 1980 have been lost to time, I am writing a note on each of the talkpages to explain where I got the names from. I am hoping to rediscover these names, in order to update List of historical tropical cyclone names (LOHTCN) and season articles as well as to give editors a better idea of who named what. As of April 13, 2022, LOHTCN currently shows that the names Aline, Blanche, Corrine, Delphine, Eliane, Francoise, Genevieve, Hermine, Iseult, Jane, Katia, Louise and Michelle were used in the South-West Indian Ocean. This is based on the SWIO Met-Mar Seasonal Summary for 1969-70 from the La Reunion Met Service. As a result, I am fairly happy that all of the names for this season have been properly caught. However, a quick look at the season article shows that the names Diane, Harriet, Josephine and Kathy were used for systems, that moved into the basin from the Aus region to become Diane–Francoise, Harriet-Iseult, Josephine-Jane & Kathy–Michelle. This was currently not cited in the seasonal article, and neither the met-mar summary nor the BoM summary Tropical Cyclones in the Australian Region from July 1909 to June 1980 includes Diane, Harriet, Josephine or Kathy.

The Global Tropical/Extratropical Cyclone Climatic Atlas by the NDCC provides TCR's for Aline, Blanche, Corrine, Eliane, Genevieve, Hermine, Armet-Iseult, Josephine-Jane, Katia, Louise and Kathy-Michelle. The TCR for Diane does not make any mention of Francoise. The TCRs prove that Josephine became Jane and that Kathy became Michelle when they crossed 80E, however, this is the first I have heard of the name Armet being used in relation to Iseult. IBTRACS shows that Diane became Francoise, Harriet became Iseult, Kathy became Michelle when they crossed 80E. However, it does not currently show that the name Josephine was used for Jane. Jason Rees (talk) 00:51, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]