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The 2022–23 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was one of the deadliest South-West Indian cyclone seasons on record, mostly due to Cyclone Freddy. It officially began on 15 November 2022, and ended on 30 April 2023, with the exception for Mauritius and the Seychelles, for which it ended on 15 May 2023. These dates conventionally delimit ...
Cyclone Freddy originated from a Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and an equatorial Rossby wave in the Australian region, which contributed to the formation of a tropical low on 5 February. A circulation was ill-defined, but by the evening and overnight, persistent atmospheric convection had occurred and was beginning to show signs of better ...
Intense Tropical Cyclone Dina was a cyclone that caused record flooding across parts of Réunion. Originating from a tropical disturbance on 15 January 2002 near the Chagos Archipelago, the precursor to Dina quickly developed within a region favoring tropical cyclogenesis. By January 17, the system had developed enough organized convection as ...
Cyclone Berguitta. Intense Tropical Cyclone Berguitta was a strong tropical cyclone that caused flooding in Mauritius and Réunion in January 2018. The third tropical system and first intense tropical cyclone of the 2017–18 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Berguitta originated from an area of scattered thunderstorms southwest of the ...
Part of the 2021–22 Australian region and South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons. Intense Tropical Cyclone Batsirai was a deadly tropical cyclone which heavily impacted Madagascar in February 2022, becoming the strongest tropical cyclone to strike Madagascar since Cyclone Enawo in 2017. It made landfall two weeks after Tropical Storm Ana ...
Part of the 2013–14 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. Intense Tropical Cyclone Amara was a tropical cyclone that brought stormy conditions to Rodrigues in December 2013. Amara was the first named storm in the southwest Indian Ocean during the later half of 2013, and developed from a disturbance within the monsoon trough on December 15.
Background. The South-West Indian Ocean tropical cyclone basin is located to the south of the Equator between Africa and 90°E. The basin is officially monitored by Météo-France who run the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre in La Réunion, while other meteorological services such as the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Mauritius Meteorological Service as well as the United States ...
Zambia. Part of the 2022–23 Australian region and South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons. Cyclone Freddy was the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record, beating the previous record of Hurricane John in 1994. [1] It also has the highest accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) of any tropical cyclone on record worldwide, surpassing Hurricane Ioke ...