READ: Interesting facts about tropical cyclones

Here are some facts about cyclones that you may have not known.

• Cyclones are known by different names depending on the place in which it has taken place. In America it is called a hurricane and in Asia a typhoon. America and Mexico a tornado and in Southern Africa it is a tropical cyclone.

• The eye of the storm is approximately 30 to 50 km wide and is considered the calmest point. However winds speeds around it can reach up to 200km/h.

• The last tropical cyclone Southern Africa experienced was in 1984. It was named Domoina. It formed on January 16 and dissipated on February 2.

• Cyclones are named from a list of names in alphabetical order and are catergorised as they appear. Initially, only women’s names were used, but nowadays even men’s names are used.

• Cyclones have killed 2-million people over the last 200 years.

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