
2026 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
Annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation

Annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation
The 2026 North Indian Ocean cyclone season is the first season since the 2023 season to have at least one very severe cyclonic storm, Arnab, which is also one of the latest first named cyclonic storms of any season in the basin. So far, is an ongoing annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the North Indian Ocean basin. The season has no official bounds, but most cyclones tend to form between April and December, with the peak from May to November. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean. 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 as BOB. The systems that form over land are abbreviated as LAND. The official...
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