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The South Atlantic hurricane season is a period of time extending from December 1 until March 30 that occurs every year and delimits the period when tropical cyclones most frequently form in the South Atlantic. The term was first officially used and was put in place for the 2031-32 South Atlantic hurricane season.

History
The South Atlantic tropical cyclone has been documented since 1974, although its research had been more closely and throroughly studied by public and private interests since Cyclone Catarina of 2004. However, at the time true tropical cyclones in the region were only an occasional and infrequent occurance. However, during the winter of 2024, an unprecedented rise in instability and drop in wind shear levels occured that would set the climatological standard of atmospheric conditions in the Southern Atlantic for the next century. While many had theoreticized that the sudden change had been a result of climate change, leading meteorologists had stated that the change was too quick to have been related to global warming. During late-2024 and early 2025, a documented 3 cold-core tropical cyclones formed in the Southern Atlantic, which was by far a record. The pattern of South Atlantic tropical cyclones forming in the winter months was persistent in the subsequent years.

After a 3 year research by the National Hurricane Center, it was concluded that official advisories and monitoring of South Atlantic tropical cyclones would begin starting in the 2031-32 period. As such, the first official hurricane season with official record occured during that period. At the time the National Hurricane Center of Miami, Florida handled operations for South Atlantic tropical cyclones, but official duties were handed over in the 2042-43 season to the Brasileiro Autoridade Meteorológica (BAM), the newly formed Brazilian meteorological agency, and subsequently after the 2044-45 season the Brasileiro Autoridade Meteorológica de Ciclones Tropicais (BAMCT) division of BAM took control of operations in the South Atlantic.

Activity
The South Atlantic hurricane season sees persistent although not much tropical cyclone activity each year during the summer months of the Southern Hemisphere. In the 10-year Southern Atlantic tropical cyclone study conducted by the NHC, it was concluded that the average number of named storms per year would be 3, the number of hurricanes 1, and the number of major hurricanes once every three years. The 2031-32 season, with a statistical line of 4-2-0, would end up being the most active season until the 2047-48 season.

Naming
In developing a set of names for the South Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center had decided to use sets of 10 Portuguese names each season, with each list recycled every 6 years. However, this was not the first time names were used in the South Atlantic - A category 2 hurricane in 2004, which had been considered an extremely rare event, carried the name of "Catarina." lt had also been decided that tropical cyclones in the South Atlantic would carry the term "cyclone," rather than other proposals which included "atormentar" and English and Portuguese varaints of "hurricane." In addition storms in the region would still use the prefixes of tropical storm and tropical depression if they were as strong as such - hurricanes would be called cyclones.