Tropical cyclone Garance made landfall on the French Indian Ocean territory of Réunion on Friday, packing gusts of 166 kilometers (103 miles) per hour.

A Lithuanian man who was attempting to row from San Diego to Brisbane in order to raise awareness for Ukraine was rescued in the Pacific Ocean by the Australian Navy Sunday after he ran into a tropical cyclone.

A veterinary clinic in Brunswick County is undergoing a major renovation aimed at protecting it from future flooding. The Fix-A-Friend Spray Neuter Clinic was severely damaged by flooding from a potential tropical cyclone in September 2024.

Tropical cyclones Rae, Seru and Alfred are all churning as the region is in the peak of a season that starts in November and ends in April. The storms are called cyclones when they happen in the Southwest Pacific and hurricanes when they form in the North Atlantic,

Réunion island issued its highest level of threat warning as the French Indian Ocean territory braced for a direct hit by a cyclone packing gusts likely to exceed 200 kilometers per hour (124 miles per hour).

Garance was a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean early Thursday Eastern time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its latest advisory. The tropical cyclone had sustained wind speeds of 121 miles per hour,

Tropical Cyclone Honde formed in the Mozambique Channel early Wednesday Eastern time, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The tropical cyclone had sustained wind speeds of 58 miles per hour.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall on late Friday or early Saturday, forcing the closure of ports in Brisbane, where the ships are based

Tropical cyclone Alfred is a reminder that powerful storms have the power to show up in some surprising places.

Significant damage and power outages are possible in the densely populated region of Queensland, where tropical cyclones impacts are not uncommon but direct landfalls are.