A below average number of cyclones hit Australia this season, but the ones that did certainly packed some punch.
Seven cyclones affected the Australian region - an area that stretches well into the Indian and South Pacific oceans - this season, a number below the long-term average of 11.
But while there were significantly less cyclones than normal, the four that did make it to the mainland certainly made themselves known.
Kate formed on December 21 and brushed by the Cocos Islands on Christmas Day becoming the first cyclone in the region for the official season, which runs from November 1 to April 30, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
But it was the destructive Severe Tropical Cyclone Lam, which slammed into Arnhem Land as a category four storm - equal in intensity to Cyclone Tracy - on February 20 that was the first to cross the Australian coast.
It was followed hours later by category five Tropical Cyclone Marcia.
Marcia caused major damage and flooding along Queensland's Capricorn Coast.
Two other cyclones managed to cross the coast.
Olwyn struck as a severe category three storm near Exmouth on March 15.
Nathan lingered for days in the Coral Sea before heading west and crossing the coast three times - on the Cape York Peninsula coast on March 20, the eastern Arnhem Land coast on March 22 and the northern Arnhem Land coast on March 24.
The season's final cyclone, Quang, reached category four in the Indian Ocean but quickly dissipated, crossing the Gascoyne coast in WA as a tropical low on May 1.
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