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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.
Cyclonic Storm Fengal 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. It killed at least 37 people; 20 in India and ...
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.
The costliest tropical cyclone was Hurricane Helene, with a damage total of at least $124 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 China.
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 ...
28 May – Seventeen people are killed and 12 others are reported missing after a stone quarry collapses due to heavy rains caused by cyclone Remal in Melthum, Mizoram. [ 74 ] 29 May – 2024 Indian heat wave : The India Meteorological Department records a maximum temperature of 52.3 °C (126.1 °F) at its station in the Mungeshpur area of ...
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.