At 0:00 UTC on November 6, the BOM detected an area of low pressure within a monsoonal trough near 7.8°S, 97.2°E., which gradually organized while drifting westward for the next couple of days.

The cyclone continued to intensify before reaching its peak intensity at 13:00 UTC on November 10 with 10-minute sustained winds of around 70 mph (110 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 982 mbar (29.0 inHg), with a short-lived eye visible on satellite imagery.

As Pedro moved southward, strong vertical wind shear left the low-level center bare and displaced convection to the northwestern side of the storm.

[2] Early on 15 December, the system was named Felicity by TCWC Brisbane, after it had become a category 1 tropical cyclone on the Australian Scale.

[2] During that day the JTWC initiated advisories on the system and designated it as Tropical Cyclone 07P, with peak 1-minute sustained wind speeds of 110 km/h (68 mph).

[3] TCWC Brisbane subsequently reported peak 10-minute sustained wind speeds of 110 km/h (68 mph), before the system made landfall over the Cape York Peninsula where it weakened below cyclone intensity.

[2] The system subsequently moved into the Coral Sea during 16 December, where it started to rapidly deepen, but did not reattain the classical characteristics of a tropical cyclone.

Moving swiftly westward, the disturbance gradually organized for two days until slightly weakening due to increasing vertical wind shear.

The nascent cyclone tracked south-southeastward, remaining under the influence of vertical wind shear causing majority of convection to be displaced west of the center.