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Sri Lanka is an island nation in the Indian Ocean. 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 ]
Typhoon Ketsana, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ondoy, was the second-most devastating tropical cyclone of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, causing $1.15 billion in damages and 665 fatalities, only behind Morakot earlier in the season, which caused 956 deaths and damages worth $6.2 billion. Ketsana was the sixteenth tropical storm ...
The following is a list of tropical cyclones by year. Since the year 957, there have been at least 12,791 recorded tropical or subtropical cyclones in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, which are known as basins. Collectively, tropical cyclones caused more than US$1.2 trillion in damage, unadjusted for inflation, and have killed more ...
Here's what made this typhoon one of the weirdest weather phenomena we've seen on Earth.
It intensified further into a depression on 25 November, moving northwestwards towards Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka coast. On 26 November, it intensified further into a deep depression, later moving into Sri Lanka. On 29 November, the system strengthened into a cyclonic storm and hence was named Fengal by the IMD. [61]
The JTWC was still tracking the system, and it made landfall in Northeastern Sri Lanka. The JTWC still gave it a low chance for tropical development, while the IMD said it couldn't develop further. [134] The storm continued to weaken and dissipated southwest of Sri Lanka on 27 December. BOB 10 gave minor impacts to Sri Lanka.
The typhoon has also surpassed the strength of any storm recorded in 2022 and now stands equivalent to a category 5 super typhoon. #Mawar now up to 150 knots (175 mph) per latest JTWC advisory.
On December 17, 1944, 80 years ago today, the U.S. Navy's Third Fleet Fast Carrier Task Force was in a refueling operation several hundred miles east of the Philippines, in one of the world's most ...