Category Super Cyclone

Major Cyclone ravages Yemeni island, heads for LNG plant, Qaeda-run city

A rare tropical cyclone packing hurricane-force winds killed three people and injured scores on the exotic Yemeni island of Socotra on Monday and then headed towards a gas terminal and an Al Qaeda-controlled town on the mainland.   The World…

Cyclone Chapala will drop 7 years of rain on Yemen

Courtesy of Joshua Baker War-torn Yemen was braced last night for one of the worst storms ever recorded in the area, with seven years’ worth of normal rainfall expected to fall and winds likely to reach 105mph.   The category 4…

Super Cyclone Chapala; 33-feet waves; wind at 170kmph; Oman, Yemen on alert

In its noon update, the Oman Meteorology Department has warned of waves reaching heights of nearly 33 feet and wind speeds accelerating to 170kmph as Cyclone Chapala hits Yemen’s Socotra Island.   Oman is also bearing the brunt of the…

Rare And Destructive Cyclone Chapala Rapidly Intensifies To A Category 4 Storm In Arabian Sea

Cyclone Chapala could become the strongest on record in the Arabian Sea and may make an unprecedented landfall at hurricane strength along the coast of Yemen or southwest Oman in the days ahead.   Chapala rapidly intensified and is estimated…

Destruction as massive cyclones hit Australia

(Infrared image courtesy of the Japan Meteorological Agency/Blue Marble surface image courtesy of NASA/Bureau of Meteorology/Australian Government) Two powerful cyclones pounded Australia Friday, leaving a trail of destruction with houses ripped apart, trees uprooted and electricity cut to thousands of…

Cyclone Hudhud Of 130mph Flattens At Least 6,000 Buildings And Kills At Least 22 People In India

At least 22 people are dead in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Hudhud, which ripped through India’s eastern coast Sunday and Monday with wind speeds over 100 miles per hour. The Times of India reports that 15 people were killed…

Super Cyclone threat: Tens of thousands evacuated along AP coast, India

Tens of thousands of people from low-lying areas of coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh have been evacuated as the state intensified preparations to face Cyclone Hudhud, expected to reach the northern coastline around Visakhapatnam by forenoon tomorrow.   As many…

Reminder: Severe cyclonic storm Hudhud is forecast to strike India at about 16:00 GMT on 11th October 2014

Tropical storm Hudhud is forecast to strike India as a severe cyclonic storm at about 16:00 GMT on 11 October. Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Center suggest that the point of landfall will…