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The 1964 Rameswaram cyclone (also known as the Dhanushkodi cyclone) was regarded as one of the most powerful storms to ever strike India on record. [1] The system was first identified as an area of low pressure over the Andaman Sea on December 15. Following interaction with a tropical wave, it began to develop and became a depression by ...
Satellite image of Cyclone Sagar, the strongest cyclone on record to strike Somalia until Gati in 2020, which also killed 78 people. May 19, 2018 - After traversing much of the Gulf of Aden, Cyclone Sagar made the westernmost landfall in the northern Indian Ocean when it struck Lughaya in northwestern Somaliland with winds of 75 km/h (45 mph). [21]
February 15, 1950 - After crossing Madagascar, a cyclone struck eastern Mozambique and moved across much of Africa, eventually reaching northern Namibia. [3] [4]April 15, 1952 - A cyclone moved ashore southeastern Tanzania near Lindi with maximum sustained winds estimated at 180 km/h (110 mph); this made the cyclone the strongest on record to strike the country. [5]
The houses are gone, the food has run out, yet still no aid has come to the village of John Segredo - ten days after a devastating cyclone hit Mozambique. One of them, 23-year-old Juliana Costa ...
Current events; Random article; ... Category: October 2020 events in Africa. ... This page was last edited on 7 November 2022, at 23:54 (UTC).
Over a week after Cyclone Freddy‘s second and more devastating landfall in Malawi and Mozambique and nearly a month since The post Southern Africa grappling with effects of Cyclone Freddy ...
The number of Category 5 tropical cyclones that formed this year totalled to five, while 23 major tropical cyclones formed throughout the year, which was slightly below average. The accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index for 2022 (seven basins combined), as calculated by Colorado State University (CSU) was 621.2 units overall, which was below ...
UN weather agency says Tropical Cyclone Freddy that hit eastern Africa last year was longest ever 07/02/2024 10:00 -0400 GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency said Tuesday that Tropical Cyclone Freddy, a deadly Indian Ocean storm that lashed eastern Africa last year , was confirmed to be the longest-lasting cyclone ever recorded at 36 days.