Before the arrival of the Portuguese in the early sixteenth century, there is little known of Réunion's history. Arab traders were familiar with it by the name Dina Morgabin. The island is possibly f ...
On October 4, the Japan Meteorological Agency started to monitor a tropical depression that had developed in the Gulf of Thailand, about 400 km (250 mi) west of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Over the n ...
Early on May 30, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) reported that an area of low pressure had formed about 925 km (575 mi), to the southwest of Mumba ...
In early May 2013, an area of disturbed weather formed over the southern Bay of Bengal. Remaining nearly stationary, the system gradually developed. By May 8, organized convection formed around a defi ...
On October 24, 2008, an area of low pressure formed in the North Indian Ocean, within the central Bay of Bengal. Later that day the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, designated it as a Tropical Disturbanc ...
In mid- to late-April, a pulse in the Madden–Julian oscillation, coupled with a Kelvin wave, (which later contributed to the formation of Typhoon Chanchu in the western Pacific) enhanced convective a ...
In late October, a low pressure area formed over the Arabian Sea. It slowly consolidated as it moved north, and a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert (TCFA) was issued by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center ...
In the early hours of October 27, the India Meteorological Department's Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in New Delhi started to monitor an area of low pressure, that had developed in south ...
In the middle of May 2010, an area of convection, or thunderstorms, persisted about 865 miles (1400 km) south of the Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in the Bay of Bengal. It was initially d ...
In the days after the storm, the junta pursued a CNN reporter covering the effects of the storm. The reporter was eventually forced to leave the country out of fear of being imprisoned.On 9 May 2008, ...
In the last week of April 2008, an area of deep convection persisted near a low-level circulation in the Bay of Bengal about 1150 km (715 mi) east-southeast of Chennai, India. With good outflow and lo ...
On November 9, an area of disturbed weather developed southeast of the Andaman Islands, with a weak low-level circulation near the Nicobar Islands. Initially moderate upper-level wind shear inhibited ...
The name Hudhud, suggested by Oman, refers to the bird Hoopoe. The bird is known as the "hudhud" in the Quran, and appears in the story of Sulayman (Solomon).Meteorological history Storm trackUnder th ...
On December 23, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) reported that a tropical disturbance had developed within the monsoon trough about 1540 km (960 mi) to the east of Medan in Indonesia. Convectio ...
Late on November 4, 2009, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) reported that an area of convection had started to deepen around a poorly organized and elongated low level circulation center about 3 ...