Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yayin da guguwar ke aiki Ofishin Kula da Yanayi na Darwin Tropical Cyclone Warning Center ya kiyasta cewa Monica, ya kai kololuwa tare da mafi karancin matsin lamba na. Duk da haka, a lokacin da suke nazarin Monica, Cibiyar Gargadi ta Tropical Cyclone ta Darwin ta yi la'akari da amfani da dangantakar Love-Murphy matsa lamba-iska, cewa tsarin yana da matsin lamba na. Koyaya, tun daga wannan lokacin BoM ya fara amfani da alaƙar matsin lamba-iska ta Knaff, Zehr da Courtney, wanda ya kiyasta cewa Monica tana da mafi ƙarancin matsin lamba na. Sauran ƙididdigar matsin lamba sun haɗa da ƙididdigar matsin lamba na Cibiyar Tsaro ta Tsaro ta Tsaro da kuma Jami'ar Wisconsin-Madison's Advanced Dvorak Technique wanda ya kiyasta matsin lamba mafi ƙaranci. Matsakaicin matsin lamba na Advanced Dvorak Technique zai nuna cewa tsarin shine mafi tsananin guguwa mai zafi da aka taɓa yin rikodin a duk duniya kamar yadda matsin lamba yake ƙasa da na mai rikodin duniya na yanzu, Typhoon Tip
na shekarar 1979. A cikin 2010, Stephen Durden na NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ya yi nazarin ƙarancin matsin lamba na Cyclone Monica kuma ya ba da shawarar cewa tsarin na iya ƙaruwa tsakanin kuma ya ƙaryata da ƙarfi da'awar cewa Monica ita ce mafi ƙarfin guguwa mai zafi a cikin rikodin.