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According to Meteo France, the storm is expected to reach its peak on Monday, with speeds of around 200 kilometres per hour (124 miles per hour) at low altitudes, and 250 kph in inhabited areas ...
The South-West Indian Ocean tropical cyclone basin is located to the south of the Equator between Africa and 90°E. [2] 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 ...
SAINT-PAUL, Réunion (AP) — A tropical cyclone hit the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean on Monday, bringing intense rains and powerful winds and leaving about a quarter of households ...
Tropical Cyclone Belal was the first tropical cyclone to make landfall over Réunion since Hondo in 2008, and the strongest to strike the island since Firinga in 1989. [1] The second named storm of the 2023–24 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season , Belal was first identified as a disturbance east of Agaléga in early January 2024.
Within the South-West Indian Ocean, tropical and subtropical cyclones that are judged to have 10-minute sustained winds of 65 km/h (40 mph) by the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center on Réunion island, France (RSMC La Réunion) are usually assigned a name by the Sub-Regional Tropical Cyclone Advisory Centers in Mauritius and Madagascar.
The French island of La Reunion lifted a cyclone alert at noon (0800 GMT) on Tuesday, as cyclone Belal that struck the Indian Ocean island a day earlier had moved away and no longer posed a threat ...
Intense Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi was a long-lived tropical cyclone that traversed the southern Indian Ocean in December 2024 and January 2025. Dikeledi, which means tears in Sotho , is the fourth named storm and the third intense tropical cyclone of the 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season .
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.