Réunion Island's Record-Breaking Rainfall
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In the last week of February, Réunion Island set several still-standing world rainfall records

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Réunion Island set several world records in the last week of February from two separate storms.
From Feb. 28-29, 1964 , Category 1 Cyclone Giselle struck Réunion , a French territory about 450 miles east of Madagascar .
The island's location in an alley of South Indian Ocean tropical cyclones amplified by its terrain.