Cyclone Activity News Today

As the countdown to the Atlantic basin hurricane season is underway, there have been some unusual sights in the Pacific as the western part of the ocean has not produced a single cyclone, putting the year on pace to have one of its latest starts on record.

Forecasters are tracking a subtropical depression off the coast of South America that is expected to become a rare tropical storm in a part of the Atlantic Ocean that is usually void of cyclone activity.

Researchers discovered a significant decline in cyclone activity in the Indian Ocean. Cyclones can become powerful and unleash devastating storm surges, flooding and winds. Read here to learn more facts about the Indian Ocean.

The strong cold front will bring a big cool down on Tuesday. Well-below normal temperatures for the week. Frost and Freeze will be possible.

The real concern for people. >> an ongoing story, absolutely. 315 kilometer power gusts. super typhoon reached 315 kilometers an hour. sustained wins that strong. this particular storm, sparsely populated. good news. areas in red. high leapest on the plan tight see cyclone activity. about 20 of them begin to move in toward the philippines. 10 make landfall out toward the philippines every year. you talk about this year. the month of may. intensity. activity picks up. culminating in july and augu...

Plane suddenly turned westward from its original course. the malaysian government denied in a tweet that any malaysian air force aircraft were scrambled. >> im suspicious of the information that theyve provided. i think the most likely scenario is that they detected them on military radar. they scrambled the jets. and either couldnt locate it or some other problem developed. >> reporter: our source says the air force did not inform the rest of the malaysian government until three days later, mar...

Because so far we havent seen a long-term trend. we thought we did in 2005 which was a very active year. and then since then, the global cyclone activity has dropped off considerably, and were at record lows. the news has not reported there were many hurricanes in the atlantic. >> and the debate is continuing, very vocal on both sides as to whether the climate change is playing a part in the monster storms. many scientists believe it is, many believe it is not. and that it is no different from p...

Scientific community is still out on that one in terms of typhoons. because so far we havent seen a long-term trend. we thought we did in 2005 which was a very active year. and then since then, the global cyclone activity has dropped off considerably, and were at record lows. the news has not reported there were many hurricanes in the atlantic. >> and the debate is continuing, very vocal on both sides as to whether the climate change is playing a part in the monster sto storms. many scientists b...