Portal:Tropical cyclones/Anniversaries/February/10

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February 10

  • 1994 - Cyclone Hollanda (pictured) struck Mauritius in the south-west Indian Ocean, killing two people and leaving 1,500 people homeless.
  • 2015 - Typhoon Higos attained its peak intensity with 1-minute sustained winds of 215 km/h (130 mph), becoming the easternmost, and second strongest storm in the month of February in the Northwest Pacific ocean.
  • 2019 - Cyclone Gelena passed by the archipelago of Mauritius as an intense tropical cyclone. Overall damage on the island were about US$1 million.