2021 North Indian Ocean cyclone season information
North Indian Ocean tropical cyclone season
2021 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
Season summary map
Seasonal boundaries
First system formed
April 2, 2021
Last system dissipated
December 6, 2021
Strongest storm
Name
Tauktae
• Maximum winds
185 km/h (115 mph) (3-minute sustained)
• Lowest pressure
950 hPa (mbar)
Seasonal statistics
Depressions
10
Deep depressions
6
Cyclonic storms
5
Severe cyclonic storms
3
Very severe cyclonic storms
2
Extremely severe cyclonic storms
1
Super cyclonic storms
0
Total fatalities
273 total
Total damage
$5.4 billion (2021 USD)
Related articles
2021 Atlantic hurricane season
2021 Pacific hurricane season
2021 Pacific typhoon season
North Indian Ocean tropical cyclone seasons 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
The 2021 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was an average season, the North Indian Ocean cyclone season has no official bounds, but cyclones tend to form between April and December, peaking between May and November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean. The season began on April 2, when a depression designated as BOB 01 was formed in the north Andaman Sea and quickly made landfall in Myanmar. The basin remained quiet for over a month before Cyclone Tauktae formed. It rapidly intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm before making landfall in Gujarat, become the strongest storm ever to strike that state since the 1998 Gujarat cyclone. Later that month, BOB 02 formed and later strengthened into Cyclone Yaas. Yaas rapidly intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm before making landfall in northwestern Odisha. The season's strongest tropical cyclone was Cyclone Tauktae, with maximum wind speeds of 185 km/h (115 mph) and a minimum barometric pressure of 950 hPa (28.05 inHg).
The scope of this article is limited to the Indian Ocean in the Northern Hemisphere, east of the Horn of Africa and west of the Malay Peninsula. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean — the Arabian Sea to the west of the Indian subcontinent, abbreviated ARB by the India Meteorological Department (IMD); and the Bay of Bengal to the east, abbreviated BOB by the IMD.
The official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center releases unofficial advisories. On average, four to six cyclonic storms form in this basin every season.[1]
^"Tropical Cyclones". India Meteorological Department. India Meteorological Department. Archived from the original on May 29, 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
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