Template:Tropical cyclone season name

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This template is used to convert abbreviations and acronyms for the names of tropical cyclone seasons into their full name, as used in the titles of the season articles on Wikipedia. Common and uncommon abbreviations, acronyms and shortenings are all supported, as well as other shortenings which could conceivably be used by those unfamiliar with the conventions of tropical cyclones.

Usage

This template takes only one unnamed parameter, which is an acronym, abbreviation or shortening of a basin name. The transclusion syntax is as follows:

{{Tropical cyclone basin name|INPUT}}

where INPUT is replaced by a valid entry from the following table:

Preferred inputs	Other possible inputs	Output
Atlantic Atl AHS	NHCA	Atlantic hurricane season
Eastern Pacific EPac EP PHS	East Pacific Central Pacific CPac CP CPHS CHS NHCP CPHC	Pacific hurricane season
Western Pacific WPac WP PTS	West Pacific Typhoon WPTS WTS TY JMA	Pacific typhoon season
North Indian NI NIO NIOCS	North India Indian BOB ARB IMD	North Indian Ocean cyclone season
Australia Australian Aus ACS	BOM BM BMKG PNGNWS	Australian region cyclone season
South-West SWIO SWIOCS	Southwest South-West Indian Southwest Indian South Indian Africa SW MFR	South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
South Pacific SPac SP SPCS	Fiji New Zealand FMS NZMS NZ PCS	South Pacific cyclone season