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Mumbai escaped the brunt of a cyclone on Wednesday after winds changed direction and the storm made landfall further south on India's western coast than expected, giving some respite to a ...
In November 1940, a severe cyclone struck Mumbai, ... Nearly 560 people and 23,000 cattle were reported to be died and 10,00,000 people were affected.
Cyclone Sitrang, near peak intensity on October 24, 2022 A Cyclonic Storm is a category used by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to classify tropical cyclones, within the North Indian Ocean tropical cyclone basin between the Malay Peninsula and the Arabian Peninsula .
Severe Cyclonic Storm Nisarga [a] (/ ˈ n ɪ s ə r ɡ ə /) was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike the Indian state of Maharashtra in the month of June since 1891. [2] It was also the first cyclone to impact Raigad & Mumbai since Phyan of 2009. [3]
Dana pounded some districts in Odisha and neighbouring West Bengal state with heavy downpours as gusty winds brought down trees
He also coined the term cyclone, meaning the coil of a snake. In 1842, he published his landmark thesis, Laws of the Storms. [3] 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 ...
The 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was the costliest North Indian Ocean cyclone season in recorded history. The season cost more than $15.78 billion (2020 USD ), and a total of 128 people were killed.
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.