Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for DANILO-21 in , Mauritius, Miscellaneous (French) Indian Ocean Islands from 01 Jan 2021 18:00 UTC to 09 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC

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Overall Green Tropical Cyclone for DANILO-21

in , Mauritius, Miscellaneous (French) Indian Ocean Islands

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone DANILO-21 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID	TC 1000756
Name	DANILO-21
From - To	01 Jan - 09 Jan
Exposed countries	, Mauritius, Miscellaneous (French) Indian Ocean Islands
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	130 km/h Category 1
Maximum storm surge	0.2 m (10 Jan 23:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	--

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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
GDACS JTWC	n.a	0.2 m	n.a.	0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF	137 km/h	0.4 m	628 mm	0.5
GFS	144 km/h	0.3 m	599 mm	0.5
ECMWF	68 km/h	0.3 m	238 mm	0.5

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Mauritius, La Réunion - Tropical Storm DANILO (ECHO 08 Jan 2021)Fri, 08 Jan 2021 10:07

Tropical storm DANILO, formed over the Indian Ocean and is moving west-southwest towards Mauritius and La Réunion. On 8 January at 00.00 UTC, its centre was approximately 530 km north-east of Rodrigues Island (Mauritius), with maximum sustained wind of 74 km/h.
DANILO is forecast to continue west-southwest passing close to Rodrigues on 9 January and approaching Mauritius and La Réunion on 10-11 January with maximum sustained wind up to 80 km/h.
For the next 48 hours, heavy rain, strong wind and storm surge are expected over most of Rodrigues, Mauritius and La Réunion.

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