1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites
ScienceGlobal issues

Can tropical cyclones cross the equator?

02:35

This browser does not support the video element.

June 29, 2023

So far no tropical cyclone has made it across the equator. It doesn't mean that it is not possible. In recent decades cyclones were rather moving away from the equator.