What the records say
- When
- 15 Mar 2019
- Kind
- Tropical cyclone
- Coordinates
- 20.00° S, 80.00° E
- Description
- Cyclone Idai makes landfall on Mozambique, causing at least 1,073 fatalities, as well as mass flooding and power outages in southern Africa.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Cyclone Idai.
Summary
Cyclone Idai makes landfall on Mozambique, causing at least 1,073 fatalities, as well as mass flooding and power outages in southern Africa
Cyclone Idai
South-West Indian Ocean cyclone in 2019
Intense Tropical Cyclone Idai was one of the costliest and deadliest tropical cyclones on record to affect Africa and the Southern Hemisphere. The long-lived storm caused catastrophic damage, and a humanitarian crisis in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, leaving more than 1,500 people dead and many more missing. Idai is the deadliest tropical cyclone recorded in the South-West Indian Ocean basin.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article
3 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Nach dem Zyklon Idai und nachfolgenden Regenfällen sind in Mosambik und Simbabwe in Ostafrika Hunderttausende vom Wirbelsturm und Überschwemmungen betroffen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “El ciclón Idai tocó tierra en Mozambique, causando al menos 1,303 personas muertas y 110.000 desplazados”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page