page_title: Tropical cyclones in 2019
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: Tropical cyclones in 2019 / Systems / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Severe Tropical Cyclone Riley on January 27, 2019
context_page_description: During 2019, tropical cyclones formed within seven different tropical cyclone basins, located within various parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. During the year, a total of 150 systems formed with 102 of these developing further and were named by the responsible warning centre. The strongest tropical cyclone of the year was Typhoon Halong, which was estimated to have a minimum barometric pressure of 905 hPa. Hurricane Dorian has the highest wind-speed, with 1-minute sustained wind speed of 185 mph.
  Similar to the previous year, 2019 was above average in terms of the number of storms. The most active basin in the year was the Western Pacific, which documented 29 named systems. The Eastern Pacific had an average season, although many of the storms were rather weak and short-lived, therefore the number of hurricanes was the least since 2010. The North Atlantic hurricane season experienced an above average number of tropical storm intensity systems, numbering 18, though most were rather weak and short-lived, especially late in the season. In the North Indian Ocean basin it was extremely active, breaking many records.
context_section_description: The month of January was inactive, with only eight tropical cyclones forming, of which five were named. However, Tropical Storm Pabuk was the earliest-forming tropical storm of the western Pacific Ocean on record, breaking the previous record held by Typhoon Alice in 1979. Pabuk killed 10 people in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, causing $151 million (US$2019) in damage. Moderate Tropical Storm Eketsang killed 27 people in Madagascar in late-January.
caption: Severe Tropical Cyclone Riley
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