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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.
Latest start to an SWIO season, fifth deadliest season, and second costliest season 2022–23: 10: 9: 5: 3: 2 VITC Darian: 1,483 >$1.55 billion Features two very intense tropical cyclones named in the Australian Region. Features Freddy, the longest lasting tropical cyclone ever recorded. Third deadliest season. Fourth costliest season. 2023 ...
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.
Cyclone season in the southwest Indian Ocean usually spans from mid-November to the end of April, according to Météo-France. Experts have warned that climate change is worsening the atmospheric ...
The 2022–23 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was one of the costliest and 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.
The season's first storm, Moderate Tropical Storm Ana, formed as a zone of disturbed weather on 20 January 2022, marking the latest first system in a Southwest Indian Ocean cyclone season ever. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The second, and strongest storm of the season, Cyclone Batsirai , formed on 24 January, and became a long-lived and powerful storm.
A study last year found that tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean were about 29% more likely to undergo rapid intensification from 2001 to 2020, compared to 1971 to 1990.
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 ...