With a visible eye and tight bands of spiraling clouds, Cyclone Laurence was clearly a mature, well-developed cyclone when it went ashore over Western Australia for the second time, on December 21.
Powerful Tropical Cyclone Hamish formed in the Coral Sea off northeast Australia on March 5, 2009, and intensified into a strong Category 4 storm as it moved southeast along the Queensland coast.
Acquired March 18, 2010, this true-color image shows Tropical Cyclone Ului spanning several hundred kilometers over the Pacific Ocean, just south of the Solomon Islands.