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The intense tropical cyclone made landfall near Beira and weakened as it moved into Zimbabwe. The cyclone killed 1,302 people across Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, making it the second-deadliest tropical cyclone on record in the Southern Hemisphere, only behind the 1973 Flores cyclone in Indonesia. Idai caused widespread and disruptive ...
The Horn of Africa has experienced the effects of 14 North Indian Ocean tropical cyclones since 1984, resulting in at least 108 fatalities. All but two of the storms struck Somalia from the east. The other two – a storm in May 1984 and Cyclone Sagar in May 2018 – traversed the Gulf of Aden and struck northern Somalia.
Tropical Storm Hermine off the coast of West Africa September 23, 2022. This list of West Africa hurricanes includes all Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclones that have made landfall on, or directly affected, the Atlantic coast of West Africa or its surrounding islands: the Cape Verde Islands and the Canary Islands. Such cyclones seldom occur as ...
The South African Weather Bureau considered Domoina as the "first tropical cyclone in recent history to have caused flooding and extensive damage." [1] Nationwide, the storm caused 60 deaths and damaged the properties of 500,000 people, [11] causing R100 million (1984 ZAR, $70 million 1984 USD). [12] [nb 4]
In Africa, tropical cyclones can originate from tropical waves generated over the Sahara Desert, [179] or otherwise strike the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa. [180] [181] Cyclone Idai in March 2019 hit central Mozambique, becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone on record in Africa, with 1,302 fatalities, and damage estimated at US$2.2 billion.
About 60 tropical waves leave the coast of Africa each hurricane season. Saharan dust is restricting tropical development but it won't last. ... In 2023, tropical storms Arlene, Bret and Cindy ...
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.
Tropical cyclones in Africa by country (10 C) C. Hurricanes in the Canary Islands (3 P) M. Tropical cyclones in the Mascarene Islands (3 C, 17 P) Cyclones in Mayotte ...