2018 North Indian Ocean Cyclone Season (ThePhoneExpert)

The 2018 North Indian Ocean Cyclone Season was the most active Tropical Cyclone season on record, shattering multiple records. With a Damage total of $374B and 20,269,723 Fatalities, it is also the most Destructive Tropical Cyclone Season ever, shattering the 1 Year old record set by the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season and the 48 Year Old Record set by the 1970 season of this basin itself. This season saw 14 Category 5 Tropical Cyclones; the most in a season. Very low wind shear, high sea temperatures and weak monsoon trough increased the Activity. This was also the most active season in the basin; shattering the 26 Year old record of the 1992 season, which saw only 10 storms. It is also the most active Tropical Cyclone season since the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season, 2013 Pacific Typhoon Season, and the 2014 '15, '16 and '18 Pacific Hurricane Seasons.

The most notable storms were Daye, which desolated the south Indian state of Kerala and Myanmar, Titli which exaggerated the damages from Daye in Kerala, Amphan which destroyed the Laccadive Islands, and absorbed a storm, Emily which caused Major Damages in Ethiopia, Rita which destroyed many salt factories, Stan which caused record rainfall in Sri Lanka and Zeta, which spanned 2 calendar years.

For the first time in recorded history, the Northern Indian Ocean saw more Tropical Storms than the Atlantic, The Eastern Pacific, and even the Western Pacific; normally the most active basin on Earth. With 40 Named storms, and 1 Unnamed storm, the season broke the record set by the Western Pacific in 1962; nearly 56 years ago.