It traveled north and gradually organized into a tropical storm while performing a tight counter-clockwise loop.

On December 18 Angele intensified into a tropical cyclone before making landfall on Mozambique.

On the former island, the storm dropped heavy rainfall, reaching 665 mm (26.2 in) at Gite de Bellecombe, along with 126 km/h (78 mph) wind gusts at St. Denis.

[3] The storm killed about half of the population of the critically endangered Rodrigues flying fox.

For several days, Estelle moved around the Mascarene Islands, with a peak rainfall total on Réunion of 544 mm (21.4 in) recorded at Petite Plaine.