The South Pacific and southeast Indian Ocean tropical cyclone season 2001-02

The 2001-2002 tropical cyclone season in the South Pacific and southeast Indian Ocean was one of the quietest on record, in terms of both the number of cyclones that formed, and the impact of those systems on human affairs. In the southeast Indian Ocean basin, broadscale convection was generally suppressed and the overall number of depressions and tropical cyclones was below the long-term mean. Further east, broadscale convection was near or slightly above normal, but the proportion of tropical depressions and weak cyclones developing into severe cyclones was well below average. The below average activity represented a continuation of the trend of the previous few seasons. In the eastern Australian region, the four-year period up to 2001-2002 was by far the quietest recorded in the past 41 years.