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S R Ramanan is an Indian meteorologist.He worked as the Director of Cyclone warning centre in Chennai, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. [1] [2] [3] He serves on the advisory committee of the centre for climate change and adoption research, Anna University, Chennai. [4]
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 ...
CHENNAI (Reuters) -At least four people died, factories closed and the runway of one of India's busiest airports lay submerged due to torrential rain, as two southern states were braced on Monday ...
Rescuers used boats to reach people stranded in their homes amid widespread flooding in the India's Chennai on Wednesday after cyclone Michaung barrelled into the southern coast, bringing in heavy ...
The cyclone gradually moved north-west over the next few days towards the eastern coast of India. The storm peaked with sustained winds of 60 knots (110 km/h; 70 mph) causing heavy rainfall in north-eastern Tamil Nadu including Chennai and south-eastern Andhra Pradesh before making landfall near Bapatla in Andhra Pradesh on December 5.
The 2023 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was an above-average and deadly season, becoming the most active since 2019, with nine depressions and six cyclonic storms forming. It was the deadliest since 2017 , mostly due to Cyclone Mocha , and had the second-highest accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) in the basin, after 2019. [ 1 ]
The most intense tropical cyclone to make landfall was the 1999 Odisha Cyclone which hit the state of Odisha. Its minimum pressure was 912 mbar (26.93 inHg) and maximum wind speed was 260 km/h (160 mph). [72] The costliest tropical cyclone was Cyclone Amphan of 2020 which hit the state of Odisha and West Bengal.
A tree that fell in Chennai, India, during Cyclone Nivar was removed by local police on November 26. The Hindu reported that at least one person had been killed by the storm.Over 3,700 people in ...