The season has no official bounds but cyclones tend to form between April and December.

These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean.

An average of five tropical cyclones form in the North Indian Ocean every season with peaks in May and November.

This cyclone caused considerable agricultural damages to crops there but deaths are unknown.

The cyclone recurved, striking Indian near Calcutta on December 9, though its main impacts were across Bangladesh.