India is preparing for the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in nearly five years.
New Delhi, India What is expected to be India's strongest landfalling tropical cyclone in nearly five years is barreling towards 100 million people on the east coast, causing officials to begin emergency evacuations.
On Thursday, Tropical Cyclone Fani had winds of 190 kmph with gusts of 201 kmph , making it equivalent in intensity to a Category 3 major hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.It is expected to hit Odisha state on Friday afternoon.Cyclone Fani is due to make landfall in Odisha state on Friday.As Fani was classified as an"extremely severe cyclonic storm" in India, the country's Coast Guard and Navy deployed ships and helicopters for relief and rescue operations.
— Philip Klotzbach April 30, 2019 Fani, which is still about 270 kilometers off of the coast off India, strengthened rapidly on Monday and Tuesday, becoming the strongest storm to move through the Bay of Bengal this early in the year since Tropical Cyclone Nargis in 2008.Nargis went on to strike Myanmar with winds over 200 kph , bringing a devastating storm surge and flooding rainfall that resulted in more than 100,000 deaths in the country.
How are hurricanes named? 01:38The season doesn't have a defined start and end like the Atlantic basin season, but it does have two main periods of activity: late April to early June, and October to November.These two periods are prior to, and immediately following, India's southwest monsoon season. The southwest monsoon season lasts from June through September and provides India with the vast majority of its annual rainfall.
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