Intense Tropical Cyclone Gezani was a deadly, long-lived and destructive tropical cyclone that became the costliest cyclone to hit Madagascar on record, and the third-costliest cyclone in the South-West Indian Ocean. It also affected parts of St. Brandon, Mascarene Islands, and Mozambique as an intense tropical cyclone. In Madagascar, it made landfall at the city of Toamasina, the country's chief seaport. The ninth depression, eighth storm and third tropical cyclone of the 2025–26 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Gezani was the strongest tropical cyclone to impact Madagascar in 2026, and the second to do so within 2 weeks' time, following Cyclone Fytia. The cyclone formed on 4 February 2026 as a tropical disturbance, and mostly meandered in the same spot for a few coming days. A while later, the storm tracked southwest at a relatively low pace. On 8 February, the disturbance was upgraded to a moderate tropical storm and was given the name Gezani. Over the next few days, the storm rapidly intensified from a moderate tropical storm to a tropical cyclone in a small 30-hour window. It made landfall in Madagascar as an intense tropical cyclone with winds of 195 km/h (121 mph) and pressure as low as 952 hPa (mbar).