By Arun Devnath and Khine Lin Kyaw (Bloomberg) Cyclone Mocha made a landfall on Sunday as Bangladesh and Myanmar evacuated hundreds of thousands of people on fears of widespread destruction to one…
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Even Weak Cyclones Have Grown More Intense
by Wei Mei, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Shang-Ping Xie, University of California, San Diego (via TheConversation) Tropical cyclones have been growing stronger worldwide over the past…
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Deadly Ocean Cyclones Near Africa Are Becoming More Severe
By Antony Sguazzin (Bloomberg) The deadly cyclones and tropical storms that battered southern Africa this year were made more severe by climate change, according to 22 scientists collaborating under the…
Cyclone Batsirai Causes Devastation Along Madagascar’s Eastern Coastline
By Lovasoa Rabary ANTANANARIVO, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Three people were reported dead in southeastern Madagascar on Sunday after cyclone Batsirai made landfall, leaving a trail of devastation including collapsed…
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Ports Close In China As Tropical Storm Kompasu Nears
The number of vessels waiting to enter one of the world’s busiest ports jumped to the most since August, threatening to further snarl global supply chains as tropical cyclone Kompasu approaches.
Oman Urges Residents To Evacuate Ahead Of Tropical Storm Shaheen
Oct 2 (Reuters)- Authorities in Oman urged thousands of residents in coastal areas to leave their homes and head to emergency shelters on Saturday as the Gulf state braced for tropical storm Shaheen…
Global Sea Level Was Highest On Record for 2020
A new State of the Climate report confirmed that 2020 was among the three warmest years in records dating to the mid-1800s, even with a cooling La Niña influence in the second…
Asia Braces For 20 Cyclones In 2021
By Kanupriya Kapoor (Reuters) – Half of the roughly 20 tropical cyclones expected to form in the western Pacific Ocean through September this year are predicted to hit land in…
[Watch] Offshore Barge Sinks, 26 Dead & 49 Missing
The Indian Navy reported Wednesday that at least 26 people from the sunken accommodations barge P305 are dead, and 49 are still missing. 186 survivors have been pulled from the water, reports Maritime Executive.
What happened?The P305 went down off Mumbai on Monday evening during Cyclone Tauktae, which brought winds of up to 110 miles per hour and waves of up to 26 feet to the region.
P305 was one of three accommodations and work barges that broke loose from their moorings in the Bombay High...
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Truck drivers’ favorite weather movies: Part 2
Truck drivers need downtime just like the rest of us, even when they’re on the road. Watching a movie can be an entertaining way to pass the time, and several memorable films have been centered around weather. In a FreightWaves Twitter survey, this is how drivers ranked four popular weather-themed flicks.
‘The Perfect Storm’ (2000)
Before Wolfgang Petersen remade the classic “Poseidon Adventure,” he already created one visually dynamic weather movie set on the high seas. Based on the novel by...
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