have made it a category 1 tropical cyclone on the Australian scale. However, because it did not have the "classical characteristics of a tropical cyclone", it was treated as a tropical depression by the BoM and the FMS. Over the next couple of days, in response to an upper-level trough of low pressure weakening, the depression slowly weakened further, while accelerating to towards the southeast. Felicity was absorbed by a short-wave trough of low pressure to the north of New Zealand before it was last noted during December 22. Coral Sea Depression On January 20, TCWC Nadi started to monitor a shallow area of low pressure that had developed within a trough of low pressure, about to the Northwest of Noumea in New Caledonia. The depression was last noted on January 25, as it moved below 25°S and into MetService's area of responsibility. There were no reports of any damage associated with this depression within New Caledonia, which was largely due to its small and not so intense nature of the system. Severe Tropical Cyclone Ofa On January 27, a shallow tropical depression formed within the South Pacific Convergence Zone, about to the southeast of Funafuti, Tuvalu. Over the next two days the system developed little and remained slow moving, near the Tuvaluan atoll of Funafuti. During January 30, the depression moved towards the north-east and started to organize, as pressures near the systems center rapidly falling. During the next day the system subsequently started to curve south-eastwards and away from Tuvalu, before the NWOC initiated advisories on the system and designated it as Tropical Cyclone 13P. Late on January 31, TCWC Nadi named the tropical depression Ofa, after it had developed into a category 1 tropical cyclone on the Australian scale. Over the few days the system moved towards the south-southeast and intensified further. Ofa subsequently passed about to the west of the Western Samoan Island of Savai'i between 10:00 and 18:00 UTC during February 3. Early the next day as the system started to accelerate towards the south-southeast towards the island nation of Niue, the NWOC estimated that Ofa had peaked with 1-minute sustained wind speeds of 215 km/h (130 mph), which made it equivalent to a category 4 hurricane on the SSHWS. Later that day TCWC Nadi also estimated that the system had peaked with 10-minute sustained wind speeds of 185 km/h (115 mph) as a category