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As Hamoon made landfall, gusts from the cyclone disrupted the power supply to the city of Cox's Bazar, causing blackouts. A peak gust of 148 km/h (92 mph) was recorded in the city at 8:12pm local time, causing many houses and rice paddy fields to be levelled by intense winds. [35] Around 6 million lost power due to Hamoon. [36]
On 24 October, Hamoon intensified into a category 2-equivalent cyclone, reaching its peak intensity with sustained winds of 120 km/h (75 mph) and gusts of 140 km/h (85 mph). The storm made landfall on Cox's Bazar on the Bangladesh coast, bringing strong winds and intense rainfall into that area. [63]
Hamoon is most recent in series of major storms to pummel coastal regions of Bangladesh Three dead and 275,000 people flee to shelters in Bangladesh as Cyclone Hamoon makes landfall Skip to main ...
Hamoon was named in the Bay of Bengal on October 23. Overnight, the system rapidly intensified to a Category 2-equivalent cyclone, and later made landfall on Bangladesh's coast. In middle of November, a low pressure area was formed which later intensified into a depression according by IMD.
It was the first cyclone to make landfall in the nation since Cyclone Luban of 2018. [2] The sixth depression and the third named cyclonic storm of the season, [3] Tej coexisted with Cyclone Hamoon in the Bay of Bengal, a rare phenomenon not seen since 2018. [4]
The Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte is reeling from Cyclone Chido, the most intense storm to hit the French territory in 90 years. At least 22 people have been killed since Chido made landfall ...
The cyclone made landfall north of Dhamra Port and south of Bahanaga at around 03:30 UTC (09:00 IST) in May 26. [48] The process completed at around 05:30 UTC (11:00 IST ), with estimated winds up to 130 to 140 km/h (80 to 85 mph).
Cyclone vs. hurricane vs. typhoon: These are all terms used to name the same type of tropical storms, it just depends what ocean the storm is in. In the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Ocean, a storm ...