Why the indian ocean is spawning strong and deadly tropical cyclones

Why the indian ocean is spawning strong and deadly tropical cyclones

Play all audios:

Loading...

Simultaneously, regions further from the equator which didn’t previously have sufficiently warm water for tropical cyclone formation, with sea surface temperatures of 24-26°C are more


regularly experiencing the threshold temperature. This increases the range in which these storms occur, making storms like tropical cyclone Dineo, which made landfall in February 2017 in


southern Mozambique, more common.