Cyclone Chido: What to know about storm that devastated France’s Mayotte
Al Jazeera
Officials fear hundreds of people could be dead as a result of the cyclone, which ravaged France’s poorest department.
Cyclone Chido has become the worst storm to impact the French overseas territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean in 90 years.
Here is more about the destruction caused by Chido and what may come next:
Chido developed from a tropical depression in the southeastern Indian Ocean basin from December 7 to 8.
A tropical depression is an area of low pressure over an ocean accompanied by circular wind flow produced by thunderstorms. Tropical depressions have maximum sustained wind speeds of 61km/h (38mph) or less.
A tropical depression can intensify and become a tropical storm if wind speeds are from 62km/h (39mph) to 119km/h (74mph). Anything above that is considered a tropical cyclone.
