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Satellite image of Cyclone Batsirai, the strongest tropical cyclone to strike Madagascar since Cyclone Enawo in 2017. In the south-west Indian Ocean, tropical cyclones form south of the equator and west of 90° E to the coast of Africa.
The 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season is the current annual cycle of tropical cyclone and subtropical cyclone formation in the South-West Indian Ocean. It began on 15 November 2024, and will end on 30 April 2025, with the exception for Mauritius and the Seychelles, for which it will end on 15 May 2025.
The South-West Indian Ocean tropical cyclone basin is located to the south of the Equator between Africa and 90°E. [1] 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 Joint ...
In 2023, over 1000 people died across Malawi and Mozambique after Cyclone Freddy, the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded, barreled 5,000 miles across the Indian Ocean, where it pummeled ...
The path that the cyclone is taking across the Indian Ocean has happened only two other times in the tropical basin's recorded history. The most recent time that a storm took such a track was in 2000.
Cyclone Chido at peak intensity on 12 December 2024. Intense tropical cyclone is the second-highest classification used within the South-West Indian Ocean to classify tropical cyclones with and are amongst the strongest tropical cyclones that can form on Earth. A total of 101 tropical cyclones have peaked as an intense tropical cyclone while in ...
The ACE index for the 2023–24 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season as calculated by Colorado State University was 106.7 units. Through 2024, five tropical cyclones, four of which became tropical storms, formed outside the cyclone season in the southwest Indian Ocean, tying 2003 with four named storms.
Intense Tropical Cyclone Chido was a small but very powerful, destructive, and deadly tropical cyclone which impacted Southeast Africa in December 2024. Chido, which means desire in Shona, was the third named storm and the second intense tropical cyclone of the 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season.