funny noises that go on in the ocean at this department at this depth. all right, erin mclaughlin, many thanks to you. one thing we know will continue to be key, the weather conditions out there on the southern indian ocean. it has been changing week to week, samantha moore joins us with that part of where we move. it s key that the conditions are favorable to a search. absolutely and we have had activity the last few days, rosemary and errol on of a tropical nature. we have bands of clouds that have a search area further to the north and of course, that area has expanded, and in that area, we recently had tropical
you have been looking through that. we have had a tropical storm form and now we have a second tropical storm. it weakened just as it entered the search area. heading into the south into the old search area. so, really quite fortunate that it could have been worse in terms of it affecting the search efforts here. we have had a lot of tropical activity here across the western pacific as well. and this particular system here on the solomon islands bringing in incredible amounts of rain. we are talking 250 millimeters of rain over the past three days. so, we could have seen a scenario like this developing. thank goodness we didn t. as jillian formed here off the northern territory and moved on across, just scraping by indonesia and moving to the northern portion of the search area. it s likely, if there was debris