Cyclone Chido caused major damage to Mayotte’s airport and cut off electricity, water, and communication links when it barrelled down on France’s poorest territory on Saturday. Perfect Francois-Xavier Bieuville expects the final death toll will reach “close to a thousand or even several thousand”, he told broadcaster Mayotte la Premiere. The mayor of Mayotte’s capital […]
“It’s an unprecedented event, extremely violent, the winds may exceed 180 kilometers (112 miles) per hour,” Governor Francois-Xavier Bieuville said. As the cyclone neared the territory, the authorities banned all 320,000 residents from moving. Raising the highest alert “entails the strict confinement of the entire population, including rescue and security services and all officials mobilized […]
Cyclonic storm Fengal is forecast to make landfall in Tamil Nadu state with sustained winds of 70-80 kilometres an hour (43-50 mph) in the afternoon, India’s weather bureau said. The forecast urged fishing crews to stay off the water and predicted surging waves of one metre (three feet) that posed a flood risk to low-lying […]
More than 250,000 people in Sri Lanka have been forced to flee after their homes were flooded. Indian weather officials said there was a “possibility” that the deep depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal could develop into a cyclonic storm. Cyclones — the equivalent of hurricanes in the North Atlantic or typhoons in the […]
Scientists dubbed the storm as a “bomb cyclone” owing to the speed with which it formed and gathered power. Gusts of nearly 90 miles (145 kilometers) per hour were racing through the Pacific Northwest, toppling trees and power lines. Torrential rains dumped up to three inches (eight centimeters) of rain on parts of Oregon, Washington, […]
In its 7th advisory, PMD said that during the past 9 hours, the cyclone moved westward and now lies at around Latitude 23.6 N and Longitude 65.7 E at a distance at 200km southwest of Karachi, 220km south-southeast of Ormara and 380km southeast of Gwadar. The system is likely to track further west-southwestwards. The cyclone […]
Just 9 days after a powerful tropical cyclone hit India along the Arabian Sea coast; a storm has struck the country’s northeast from the Bay of Bengal. Firstly, According to the India Meteorological Department; Cyclone Yaas slammed into the north Odisha coast near Balasore at 10:30 local time (05:30 Universal Time) on May 26, 2021; […]
At least 12 people have been killed amid the severe Cyclone Tauktae that is roaring in the Arabian Sea off southwestern India with winds of up to 140 kilometers per hour (87 miles per hour). Cyclone Tauktae — India’s first major tropical storm this season — is moving northwards in parallel with the country’s western […]
