North Indian Ocean
Within this basin it is the Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in New Delhi, India, who assign names to cyclonic storms, which have windspeeds of over 65 km/h (40 mph). Names only started to be assigned to Tropical Cyclones in the North Indian Ocean in October 2004 with the first one named as Onil.
| 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onil | Hibaru | Mala | Akash | Nargis | Bijli | Laila | Keila | Murjan | ||
| Agni | Pyarr | Mukda | Gonu | Rashmi | Aila | Bandu | Thane | Nilam | ||
| Baaz | Ogni | Yemyin | Khai-Muk | Phyan | Phet | Mahassen | ||||
| Fanoos | Sidr | Nisha | Ward | Giri | Phailin | |||||
| Jal | Helen | |||||||||
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Read more about this topic: List Of Historic Tropical Cyclone Names
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