Cyclone Chido (2025)

Cyclone Chido reached Category 4 in the South Indian between December 5, 2024 and December 17, 2024, with a lowest pressure of 929 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Cyclone Chido, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2025 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin: South Indian
Dates: December 5, 2024 to December 17, 2024
Peak strength: Category 4, 134 kt (154 mph)
Lowest pressure: 929 mb (27.43 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 24.2
Identifier: SH042025

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Dec 5, 12:00	12.0S 85.5E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 5, 18:00	11.9S 84.7E	25 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 6, 00:00	11.5S 84.2E	25 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 6, 06:00	11.1S 83.4E	25 kt	1006 mb	Disturbance
Dec 6, 12:00	11.0S 81.9E	25 kt	1006 mb	Disturbance
Dec 6, 18:00	10.9S 80.0E	25 kt	1006 mb	Disturbance
Dec 7, 00:00	10.8S 77.9E	30 kt	1005 mb	Disturbance
Dec 7, 06:00	10.8S 75.7E	30 kt	1005 mb	Disturbance
Dec 7, 12:00	10.8S 73.9E	30 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 7, 18:00	10.7S 72.7E	30 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 00:00	10.6S 71.1E	30 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 06:00	10.6S 69.4E	30 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 12:00	10.8S 68.0E	30 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 18:00	11.3S 66.3E	30 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 00:00	11.6S 65.0E	30 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 06:00	11.7S 64.0E	35 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 12:00	11.2S 63.2E	40 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 18:00	11.0S 62.4E	39 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 00:00	11.0S 61.8E	45 kt	997 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 06:00	10.6S 60.8E	51 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 12:00	10.7S 60.2E	60 kt	988 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 18:00	10.6S 59.6E	60 kt	988 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 00:00	10.5S 59.1E	60 kt	988 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 06:00	10.5S 58.4E	74 kt	981 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 12:00	10.5S 57.5E	93 kt	967 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 18:00	10.4S 56.7E	119 kt	945 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 00:00	10.6S 55.6E	124 kt	938 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 06:00	10.6S 54.5E	134 kt	929 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 12:00	10.9S 53.5E	134 kt	931 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 18:00	10.9S 52.2E	124 kt	939 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 13, 00:00	11.1S 51.0E	115 kt	949 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 13, 06:00	11.1S 49.9E	105 kt	960 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 13, 12:00	11.6S 48.8E	105 kt	955 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 13, 18:00	11.9S 47.6E	89 kt	969 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 14, 00:00	12.1S 46.7E	115 kt	947 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 14, 06:00	12.6S 45.4E	115 kt	952 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 14, 12:00	13.1S 44.1E	119 kt	945 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 14, 18:00	13.2S 42.8E	115 kt	948 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 15, 00:00	13.3S 41.4E	115 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 15, 06:00	13.3S 40.2E	99 kt	966 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 15, 12:00	13.9S 38.7E	60 kt	989 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 15, 18:00	13.8S 37.2E	40 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 16, 00:00	14.5S 35.9E	35 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 16, 06:00	15.6S 34.5E	35 kt	1002 mb	Not reported
Dec 16, 12:00	16.1S 33.3E	30 kt	1005 mb	Not reported
Dec 16, 18:00	16.3S 32.0E	20 kt	1007 mb	Not reported
Dec 17, 00:00	16.4S 30.8E	15 kt	1008 mb	Not reported
Dec 17, 06:00	16.8S 29.9E	15 kt	1009 mb	Not reported
Dec 17, 12:00	17.5S 29.3E	10 kt	1009 mb	Not reported

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What this means

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.

Sources

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.