Cyclone Dingani (2023)

Basin

South Indian

Dates

January 31, 2023 to February 17, 2023

Peak strength

Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)

Lowest pressure

972 mb (28.70 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 862 km (536 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

9.6

Identifier

SH132023

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 2023Tropical Storm45 kt · 997 mb
• Tropical Storm AshleySouth Indian · 2023Tropical Storm50 kt · 997 mb
• Tropical Storm BalitaSouth Indian · 2023Tropical Storm40 kt · 997 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 2023Tropical Storm40 kt · 994 mb
• Cyclone DarianSouth Indian · 2023Cat 4135 kt · 922 mb
• Tropical Storm EllieSouth Indian · 2023Tropical Storm45 kt · 987 mb
• Cyclone ChenesoSouth Indian · 2023Cat 180 kt · 950 mb
• Cyclone FreddySouth Indian · 2023Cat 5140 kt · 923 mb
• Cyclone EnalaSouth Indian · 2023Cat 175 kt · 982 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 2023Tropical Storm40 kt · 994 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 2023Tropical Storm40 kt · 997 mb
• Cyclone HermanSouth Indian · 2023Cat 4130 kt · 930 mb
• Cyclone FabienSouth Indian · 2023Cat 3105 kt · 961 mb

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.