page_title: Cyclone Giovanna
hierarchical_section_title: Cyclone Giovanna
caption_attribution_description: English: On February 13, 2012, Tropical Cyclone Giovanna was located about 250 nautical miles (465 kilometers) east of Antananarivo, Madagascar. The U.S. Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) reported that the cyclone had maximum sustained winds of 125 knots (230 kilometers per hour) and gusts up to 150 knots (280 kilometers per hour). Giovanna’s clouds stretch from Mauritius and Réunion in the east to the coast of Madagascar in the west in this natural-color image. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this scene on February 13, 2012. The storm’s central eye roughly matches the size of the island of Réunion, and the whole storm spans hundreds of kilometers. The JTWC forecast that Giovanna would continue moving west, weakening after making landfall on Madagascar, but regaining strength over the Mozambique Channel. The JTWC anticipated that Giovanna would ultimately come ashore in Mozambique and dissipate after that landfall.
context_page_description: Intense Tropical Cyclone Giovanna was a powerful tropical cyclone that affected Madagascar. Giovanna was the ninth tropical depression, seventh named storm and third tropical cyclone of the 2011–12 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. Giovanna was blamed for 35 deaths along the Madagascar coast, La Réunion, and Mauritius, and it was the first intense tropical cyclone to impact Madagascar since Cyclone Bingiza in February 2011.
context_section_description: Intense Tropical Cyclone Giovanna was a powerful tropical cyclone that affected Madagascar. Giovanna was the ninth tropical depression, seventh named storm and third tropical cyclone of the 2011–12 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. Giovanna was blamed for 35 deaths along the Madagascar coast, La Réunion, and Mauritius, and it was the first intense tropical cyclone to impact Madagascar since Cyclone Bingiza in February 2011.
caption: Intense Tropical Cyclone Giovanna approaching Madagascar on February 13, 2012
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