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Cyclonic Storm Fengal [a] (/ ˈ f ɛ ŋ. ɡ ɑː l / ) was a deadly tropical cyclone that brought significant flooding and damage to Southern India and Sri Lanka . The fourth cyclonic storm of the 2024 North Indian Ocean cyclone season , Fengal originated from a tropical disturbance off the coast of Sumatra , Indonesia on 14 November.
The cyclone left 16 people dead in Sri Lanka and three in India on Sunday. Heavy rain caused by the storm affected nearly 139,000 families, according to latest data from the Disaster Management ...
Rescuers waded through waist-high water in India's Puducherry region as Cyclone Fengal brought the heaviest 24-hour rainfall in 30 years to the region according to the country's weather office.
The costliest tropical cyclone was Hurricane Helene, with a damage total of at least $78.7 billion, most of which occurred in the Southeastern United States. Meanwhile, the deadliest tropical cyclone was Typhoon Yagi, which caused at least 844 fatalities in Southeast Asia (particularly Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines) and South ...
The 2024 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. It was above-average in terms of depressions and average in terms of formation of cyclonic storms. [1] Seasons have no official bounds, but cyclones tend to form between April and December, with the peak from May to Early November.
He also coined the term cyclone, meaning the coil of a snake. In 1842, he published his landmark thesis, Laws of the Storms. [2] After a tropical cyclone hit Calcutta in 1864, and the subsequent famines in 1866 and 1873 due to the failure of the monsoons, it was decided to organise the collection and analysis of meteorological observations ...
Cyclone Dana is expected to hammer the low-lying regions of West Bengal and Odisha, home to around 150 million people, as a “severe cyclonic storm” late on Thursday or Friday morning, India ...
The country is vulnerable to cyclones due to its position near the confluence of the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. [ citation needed ] List of storms