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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.
Sean rapidly intensified into a Category 3-tropical cyclone, marking it the second major tropical cyclone of the year after Dikeledi. Cyclone Taliah and Cyclone Vince formed as well, with the latter rapidly intensifying into a Very Intense Tropical Cyclone in the South-West Indian Ocean, making it the strongest cyclone this month.
Cyclone Dikeledi formed near Java, Indonesia on 30 December 2024, and was named on 9 January. It hit Madagascar as a tropical cyclone, then Mozambique, fluctuating in strength. It peaked as an intense tropical cyclone on 16 January, setting a record for its southerly location, before weakening and becoming extratropical on 17 January.
On 14 December, Cyclone Chido became the worst storm to hit Mayotte in 90 years, bringing winds of up to 260 km/h (160mph) and flattening areas where people lived in shacks with metal roofs.
Before the month ended, a tropical low formed to the west of Australia; initially designated by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology as Tropical Low 08U, it degenerated to a low on January 4 before crossing into the South-West Indian Ocean basin, where it reorganized and eventually became Cyclone Dikeledi.
Tropical and subtropical cyclones Main article: Tropical cyclones in 2025 Cyclone Dikeledi , a powerful Intense Tropical Cyclone (Category 3 on the SSHWS) that battered Madagascar and Mozambique as a Tropical Cyclone (Category 2 on the SSHWS).
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 ...
2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. France places the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte on red alert due to approaching Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi, roughly one month after the French overseas department was devastated by Cyclone Chido. Al-Bayda gas station explosion