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Réunion. Réunion, [note 1] officially Department of Réunion, [note 2] is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. Part of the Mascarene Islands, it is located approximately 679 km (422 mi) east of the island of Madagascar and 175 km (109 mi) southwest of the island of Mauritius.
PARIS (Reuters) -The French island of La Reunion was placed under cyclone alert on Monday morning and citizens were urged to stay inside, cut power, stop using tap water and stay in the safest ...
Saint-Denis ( / ˌsæ̃dəˈniː /, French: [sɛ̃ d (ə)ni] ⓘ; Reunionese Creole: Sin-Dni ), unofficially Saint-Denis de La Réunion ( pronounced [sɛ̃ d (ə)ni də la ʁeynjɔ̃]) for disambiguation, is the prefecture (administrative capital) of the French overseas department and region of Réunion, in the Indian Ocean.
Part of the 2021–22 Australian region and South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons. Intense Tropical Cyclone Batsirai was a deadly tropical cyclone which heavily impacted Madagascar in February 2022, becoming the strongest tropical cyclone to strike Madagascar since Cyclone Enawo in 2017. It made landfall two weeks after Tropical Storm Ana ...
Piton de la Fournaise ( French: [pitɔ̃ də la fuʁnɛz]; English: "Peak of the Furnace") is a shield volcano on the eastern side of Réunion island, a French overseas department and region, in the Indian Ocean. It is currently one of the most active volcanoes in the world, along with Kīlauea in the Hawaiian Islands, Stromboli and Etna in ...
The average annual temperature in Saint-Louis is 22.2 °C (72.0 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,161.6 mm (45.73 in) with January as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around 25.2 °C (77.4 °F), and lowest in July, at around 19.0 °C (66.2 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Saint-Louis ...
Cyclone Berguitta. Intense Tropical Cyclone Berguitta was a strong tropical cyclone that caused flooding in Mauritius and Réunion in January 2018. The third tropical system and first intense tropical cyclone of the 2017–18 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Berguitta originated from an area of scattered thunderstorms southwest of the ...
The 2017–18 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was a below-average season that produced only 8 tropical storms, of which 6 became tropical cyclones. It was an event in the annual cycle of a tropical cyclone and subtropical cyclone formation. It officially began on 15 November 2017, and officially ended on 15 May 2018, in Mauritius and the ...