Cyclone Funso
Intense Tropical Cyclone Funso was a powerful tropical cyclone which produced flooding in Mozambique and Malawi in January 2012. It was the eighth tropical cyclone, the sixth named storm and the second tropical cyclone to form during the 2011–12 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. Funso was also the first intense tropical cyclone since Gelane in 2010 and the first storm to affect Mozambique since Jokwe in 2008.
| Intense tropical cyclone (SWIO scale) | |
|---|---|
| Category 4 tropical cyclone (SSHWS) | |
Intense Tropical Cyclone Funso shortly after peak intensity on January 24, 2012 | |
| Formed | January 17, 2012 |
| Dissipated | February 1, 2012 |
| (Extratropical after January 28, 2012) | |
| Highest winds | 10-minute sustained: 205 km/h (125 mph) 1-minute sustained: 220 km/h (140 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 925 hPa (mbar); 27.32 inHg |
| Fatalities | At least 40 total |
| Damage | Unknown |
| Areas affected | Mozambique, Malawi |
| Part of the 2011–12 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season | |
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