South-West Indian Ocean cyclones of category 4 and above in the 2010 to 2018 seasons

Map of 20 locations in South-West Indian Ocean

A run of high-end tropical cyclones logged across the southern Indian Ocean and its neighbouring basins over nine seasons, from the 2009-10 summer to the 2017-18 one. Some crossed in from the Australian region, others formed near the Chagos archipelago or inside the Mozambique Channel, and several stayed over open water for their whole lives. Each is a historical system, recorded from first identification to dissipation by the centres that tracked it at the time.

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  • Cyclone Enawo (2017) — The storm came ashore over the Sava Region of northeastern Madagascar on 7 March 2017, just after reaching its peak intensity. It crossed t…
  • Cyclone Fantala (2016) — The storm formed on 11 April 2016 to the south of Diego Garcia and intensified east of Madagascar, satellite imagery on 15 April showing a…
  • Cyclone Emeraude (2016) — The system formed on 15 March 2016 from tropical low 99s in the South Indian Ocean, more than 1,000 km from the nearest land. The GPM core…
  • Cyclone Uriah (2016) — The system was tracked across the southern Indian Ocean during the 2015-16 southern hemisphere season. Joint Typhoon Warning Centre data co…
  • Cyclone Ikola (2015) — The system was tracked in the southern Indian Ocean in early April 2015. Bureau of Meteorology track data, with winds given as ten-minute a…
  • Cyclone Hellen (2014) — The storm formed on 26 March 2014 in the northern Mozambique Channel and brought rainfall to coastal Mozambique while still developing. It…
  • Cyclone Gillian (2014) — The system developed on 8 March 2014 in the Gulf of Carpentaria off northern Australia and tracked west across the Indian Ocean. It passed…
  • Cyclone Colin (2014) — The system developed from a tropical storm nearly 1,000 miles east-southeast of Diego Garcia in early January 2014. It intensified while tr…
  • Cyclone Bejisa (2014) — In its formative stages the system dropped heavy rainfall on Seychelles, and also brought rain to Mauritius and Madagascar, before affectin…
  • Cyclone Bruce (2013) — The system ran alongside Cyclone Amara in the southern Indian Ocean in December 2013, and the pair were captured in a single satellite imag…
  • Cyclone Amara (2013) — The storm developed from a disturbance within the monsoon trough on 15 December 2013, the first named system in the south-west Indian Ocean…
  • Cyclone Felleng (2013) — Still a depression, the system damaged buildings and wiped out farms on the Seychelles islands of Mahé, Praslin and La Digue. Heavy rain ov…
  • Cyclone Narelle (2013) — Early in its life the system brought strong winds and heavy rain to parts of Indonesia, reaching the province of Bali by 10 January 2013 wi…
  • Cyclone Claudia (2012) — The system reached cyclone strength over the weekend of 8 December 2012 and maximum sustained winds rose to 105 knots. It covered about 175…
  • Cyclone Anais (2012) — The Joint Typhoon Warning Centre issued a formation alert on 12 October 2012 for a system near the Chagos Islands, and RSMC La Réunion name…
  • Cyclone Giovanna (2012) — After an eyewall replacement cycle left a new eye about 50 kilometres across, the cyclone came ashore at Andevoranto on the east coast of M…
  • Cyclone Funso (2012) — The storm grew out of an area of convection in the Mozambique Channel, and Météo-France upgraded it to tropical cyclone status, the equival…
  • Cyclone Edzani (2010) — The system deepened to a barometric pressure of 910 mbar in the South-West Indian Ocean in January 2010. Ten-minute sustained winds peaked…
  • Cyclone Laurence (2009) — The Bureau of Meteorology first identified the system on 8 December 2009 over the Arafura Sea. It made its final landfall on the Pilbara co…
  • Cyclone Cleo (2009) — A strong tropical disturbance formed in the central Indian Ocean on 6 December 2009 and was numbered 06 before being named. Météo-France as…

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