The Bureau of Meteorology reported that 2009 was a warm year, with above-average maximum temperatures.

The years 2009 and 2010 had dry conditions, according to Bureau of Meteorology.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology called the storm a "once in 100 year event".

However, the Bureau of Meteorology continued to monitor the system.

Whitaker began working with the Bureau of Meteorology in 1971, aged twenty-four.

Scoresby has a weather station which collects data for the Bureau of Meteorology.

He contacted the Bureau of Meteorology which had a station built in the 1960s and unmanned since 1990.

It was named Pearl a few hours later by the Bureau of Meteorology.

However, the Bureau of Meteorology continued to track the storm until 12 December.

This became the Bureau of Meteorology in 1939.