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Powerful Cyclone Bears Down on India, Forcing Millions to Evacuate
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Cyclone Fani is bearing down on India and has forced the largest evacuation in the country’s history as millions flee from the coast.
The storm formed in the Bay of Bengal earlier this week and has been gathering steam ever since as it stalks India’s east coast. It’s expected to make landfall on Friday packing a major punch with powerful winds, storm surge, and rain.
As of Wednesday, the storm had top winds of around 155 mph in the most recent Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecast, putting it right on the cusp of a Category 5 hurricane. But more recent satellite estimates indicate its winds could be whipping as high as 166 mph, well above Category 5 strength.
Fani is expected to weaken a bit before landfall, but it could still be a very dangerous storm as it approaches Puri, a city of 200,000 in the state of Odisha, early on Friday morning. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center is forecasting winds of nearly 150 mph just prior to landfall, making Fani the equivalent of an intense Category 4 hurricane. The Indian Meteorology Department is calling for “very heavy rainfall and extremely heavy falls” to accompany the storm and roughly five feet of storm surge on top of the high tide meaning it is “very likely to inundate low lying areas of Ganjam, Khurda, Puri and Jagatsinghpur Districts of Odisha at the time of landfall.” The storm is also likely to completely tear apart thatched roof houses and create major disruptions in emergency and telecommunication services.
With such a dire forecast, the Indian government has put out an evacuation order for the entire coastline. That means 3.3 million people are leaving the coast in what the AP is calling the biggest evacuation in India’s history. Up t0 11 million people could be evacuated by the time the storm hits.
The state itself is home to 46 million so basically you have a cyclone plowing into a population the size of Florida and Texas combined. And inland areas won’t be spared from impacts. Fani should still be a tropical storm on Saturday as it moves inland and dumps copious rain. Tropical storm-force winds could even lash Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal home to 4.5 million.
“The Central Government is ready to provide all possible assistance that would be required,” Prime Minister Narenda Modi said in a tweet. “Prayers for the safety and well-being of our citizens.”
India is no stranger to tropical cyclones, which can form at any time of year in the Bay of Bengal. The last major storm to strike this part of the coast Cyclone Hudhud, which came ashore as a Category 4 in 2014. Puri also took a direct hit from an unnamed 1999 Category 5 cyclone, the most powerful on record to hit India with winds of 160 mph just prior to landfall according to records kept by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Fani isn’t forecast to match that record at landfall, but it’s still likely to pose a catastrophic threat.
NOAA data also shows that water temperatures in the Bay of Bengal are currently 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius), more than hot enough to sustain such a powerful storm. They’re also running up to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above normal for this time of year, and that excess heat is one of the telltale signs of climate change. That’s not to say Fani is necessarily a sign of climate change, but then it’s becoming more and more challenging to disentangle our weather from our warming world. The Indian Ocean has also spawned twin cyclones that devastated Mozambique last month.
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Cyclone Fani churns toward India, prompting evacuation of almost 1 million
Updated on: May 2, 2019 / 8:27 PM / cbs/AFP
Nearly 800,000 people in eastern India have been evacuated from the expected path of a major cyclone packing winds up to 125 miles per hour and torrential rains, officials said Thursday. The Indian weather service said Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Fani was expected to make landfall on Friday afternoon in Odisha state and barrel northeast on a pathway close to the homes of more than 100 million people.
A state relief department official told AFP that 780,000 people were moved to safer places overnight from at least 13 districts of Odisha, home to some 46 million people, which will bear the brunt of the weather system.
"We are expecting more than a million people to move out of the danger zone in next 12 hours," Bishnupada Sethi, Odisha Special Relief Commissioner, told AFP.
Indian fishermen pull a boat to higher ground on a beach in Puri, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, May 2, 2019, as Cyclone Fani approached the coastline. Getty
Some 3,000 shelters in schools and government buildings have been set up to accommodate more than a million people. More than 100,000 dry food packets are ready to be dropped if needed, reports said.
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On Thursday the storm, which reports said would be the biggest to hit eastern India in nearly two decades, was brewing in the Bay of Bengal about 155 miles offshore and moving slowly but ominously to the west.
CBS News contributing meteorologist Jeff Berardelli says Bay of Bengal cyclones can be the deadliest on the planet because the region is so low-lying, exposing densely-populated coastal areas to extreme storm surges. He notes that there is also hilly terrain in the region, so mudslides are common. Berardelli says cyclones in the area would often kill hundreds of thousands of people in years gone by, but better warning and evacuation systems implemented in the last two decades have cut down dramatically on deaths.
Clouds loom ahead of cyclone Fani in Visakhapatnam, India, May 1, 2019. Reuters
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The cyclone was expected to pack sustained wind speeds of up to 118 miles per hour, with gusts up to 125 mph -- equivalent in strength to a Category 3 to 4 hurricane.
Fani was expected to make landfall near the Hindu holy town of Puri, a major tourist hotspot attracting millions of Indian and foreign visitors every year.
More than 100 trains were cancelled in in the two days before Thursday, according to a statement by Indian Railways. Three special trains were running from Puri to evacuate pilgrims and tourists.
Authorities have asked tourists to leave coastal areas and avoid unnecessary travel. Special buses were deployed in Puri and other towns to get them out.
Dozens of officials were making announcements on hand-held megaphones across the coastal belt asking residents to leave their homes for safety.
The Indian Navy was also put on alert.
"Our men are urging people to move to safer places and government has set up sufficient shelters to take in those evacuating their homes," said Sethi, the emergency coordinator.
"Heavy rains are expected in all the coastal districts amid fears of flash floods. We are all geared up for the challenge."
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India evacuates 1.2 million people ahead of category-four Cyclone Fani landfall
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India has accelerated efforts to evacuate more than a million people along its northeast coastline as a cyclone intensifies, and thousands of villagers are piling household possessions onto trucks before fleeing their homes.
Key points:
Cyclone Fani was churning up the Bay of Bengal about 275 kilometres from the Hindu temple town of Puri, where special trains were evacuating tourists and the beaches were empty.
In total, about 1.2 million people are expected to be evacuated from low-lying areas of 15 districts in the eastern state of Odisha to cyclone shelters, schools and other buildings, authorities said. More than 800,000 have left so far.
Photo: This satellite image shows Cyclone Fani in the Bay of Bengal. (AP: Indian Metrological Department)
"We are maximising efforts at all levels for evacuation," Odisha's Special Relief Commissioner, Bishnupada Sethi, said.
Fani was generating maximum sustained winds of up to 180kph, the state-run India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
Cyclone tracker Tropical Storm Risk rated Fani a category-four storm, a notch below the worst level.
The cyclone will make landfall before Friday afternoon, the IMD said.
The Navy has deployed seven warships and has six planes and seven helicopters on standby along with divers, rubber boats, medical teams and relief materials.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted the Government would provide all possible assistance.
In Paradip, television footage showed residents piling bicycles, sewing machines and gas cylinders onto small trucks and leaving for any of nearly 900 shelters supplied with food, water and medicines.
Photo: Dark clouds loom over locals standing at a beach in Puri district of eastern Odisha state. (AP)
India's cyclone season can last from April to December, when severe storms batter coastal cities and cause widespread deaths and damage to crops and property in both India and neighbouring Bangladesh.
Technological advancements have helped meteorologists to predict weather patterns well in advance, giving authorities more time to prepare.
In 1999, a super-cyclone battered the coast of Odisha for 30 hours, killing 10,000 people.
A mass evacuation of nearly a million people saved thousands of lives in 2013.
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Powerful Cyclone Bears Down on India, Forcing Millions to Evacuate
Brian Kahn
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Cyclone Fani is bearing down on India and has forced the largest evacuation in the country’s history as millions flee from the coast.
The storm formed in the Bay of Bengal earlier this week and has been gathering steam ever since as it stalks India’s east coast. It’s expected to make landfall on Friday packing a major punch with powerful winds, storm surge, and rain.
As of Wednesday, the storm had top winds of around 155 mph in the most recent Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecast, putting it right on the cusp of a Category 5 hurricane. But more recent satellite estimates indicate its winds could be whipping as high as 166 mph, well above Category 5 strength.
Fani is expected to weaken a bit before landfall, but it could still be a very dangerous storm as it approaches Puri, a city of 200,000 in the state of Odisha, early on Friday morning. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center is forecasting winds of nearly 150 mph just prior to landfall, making Fani the equivalent of an intense Category 4 hurricane. The Indian Meteorology Department is calling for “very heavy rainfall and extremely heavy falls” to accompany the storm and roughly five feet of storm surge on top of the high tide meaning it is “very likely to inundate low lying areas of Ganjam, Khurda, Puri and Jagatsinghpur Districts of Odisha at the time of landfall.” The storm is also likely to completely tear apart thatched roof houses and create major disruptions in emergency and telecommunication services.
With such a dire forecast, the Indian government has put out an evacuation order for the entire coastline. That means 3.3 million people are leaving the coast in what the AP is calling the biggest evacuation in India’s history. Up t0 11 million people could be evacuated by the time the storm hits.
The state itself is home to 46 million so basically you have a cyclone plowing into a population the size of Florida and Texas combined. And inland areas won’t be spared from impacts. Fani should still be a tropical storm on Saturday as it moves inland and dumps copious rain. Tropical storm-force winds could even lash Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal home to 4.5 million.
“The Central Government is ready to provide all possible assistance that would be required,” Prime Minister Narenda Modi said in a tweet. “Prayers for the safety and well-being of our citizens.”
India is no stranger to tropical cyclones, which can form at any time of year in the Bay of Bengal. The last major storm to strike this part of the coast Cyclone Hudhud, which came ashore as a Category 4 in 2014. Puri also took a direct hit from an unnamed 1999 Category 5 cyclone, the most powerful on record to hit India with winds of 160 mph just prior to landfall according to records kept by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Fani isn’t forecast to match that record at landfall, but it’s still likely to pose a catastrophic threat.
NOAA data also shows that water temperatures in the Bay of Bengal are currently 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius), more than hot enough to sustain such a powerful storm. They’re also running up to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above normal for this time of year, and that excess heat is one of the telltale signs of climate change. That’s not to say Fani is necessarily a sign of climate change, but then it’s becoming more and more challenging to disentangle our weather from our warming world. The Indian Ocean has also spawned twin cyclones that devastated Mozambique last month.
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Cyclone Fani churns toward India, prompting evacuation of almost 1 million
Updated on: May 2, 2019 / 8:27 PM / cbs/AFP
Nearly 800,000 people in eastern India have been evacuated from the expected path of a major cyclone packing winds up to 125 miles per hour and torrential rains, officials said Thursday. The Indian weather service said Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Fani was expected to make landfall on Friday afternoon in Odisha state and barrel northeast on a pathway close to the homes of more than 100 million people.
A state relief department official told AFP that 780,000 people were moved to safer places overnight from at least 13 districts of Odisha, home to some 46 million people, which will bear the brunt of the weather system.
"We are expecting more than a million people to move out of the danger zone in next 12 hours," Bishnupada Sethi, Odisha Special Relief Commissioner, told AFP.
Some 3,000 shelters in schools and government buildings have been set up to accommodate more than a million people. More than 100,000 dry food packets are ready to be dropped if needed, reports said.
Trending News
On Thursday the storm, which reports said would be the biggest to hit eastern India in nearly two decades, was brewing in the Bay of Bengal about 155 miles offshore and moving slowly but ominously to the west.
CBS News contributing meteorologist Jeff Berardelli says Bay of Bengal cyclones can be the deadliest on the planet because the region is so low-lying, exposing densely-populated coastal areas to extreme storm surges. He notes that there is also hilly terrain in the region, so mudslides are common. Berardelli says cyclones in the area would often kill hundreds of thousands of people in years gone by, but better warning and evacuation systems implemented in the last two decades have cut down dramatically on deaths.
Read more:
The cyclone was expected to pack sustained wind speeds of up to 118 miles per hour, with gusts up to 125 mph -- equivalent in strength to a Category 3 to 4 hurricane.
Fani was expected to make landfall near the Hindu holy town of Puri, a major tourist hotspot attracting millions of Indian and foreign visitors every year.
More than 100 trains were cancelled in in the two days before Thursday, according to a statement by Indian Railways. Three special trains were running from Puri to evacuate pilgrims and tourists.
Authorities have asked tourists to leave coastal areas and avoid unnecessary travel. Special buses were deployed in Puri and other towns to get them out.
Dozens of officials were making announcements on hand-held megaphones across the coastal belt asking residents to leave their homes for safety.
The Indian Navy was also put on alert.
"Our men are urging people to move to safer places and government has set up sufficient shelters to take in those evacuating their homes," said Sethi, the emergency coordinator.
"Heavy rains are expected in all the coastal districts amid fears of flash floods. We are all geared up for the challenge."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-03/india-mass-evacuation-ahead-of-cyclone/11076520
India evacuates 1.2 million people ahead of category-four Cyclone Fani landfall
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Video: Indians flee east coast ahead of category 4 cyclone landfall (ABC News)
Related Story: The ingredients that make up a recipe for disaster
Related Story: India monsoon floods kill hundreds while tens of thousands remain stranded
Related Story: Over 300 dead in India as floods force villagers into relief camps
India has accelerated efforts to evacuate more than a million people along its northeast coastline as a cyclone intensifies, and thousands of villagers are piling household possessions onto trucks before fleeing their homes.
Key points:
- Cyclone Fani has been rated a category 4 storm, one below the worst level
- The storm is generating winds of up to 180 kilometres per hour
- More than 800,000 people have evacuated from their homes so far
Cyclone Fani was churning up the Bay of Bengal about 275 kilometres from the Hindu temple town of Puri, where special trains were evacuating tourists and the beaches were empty.
In total, about 1.2 million people are expected to be evacuated from low-lying areas of 15 districts in the eastern state of Odisha to cyclone shelters, schools and other buildings, authorities said. More than 800,000 have left so far.
Photo: This satellite image shows Cyclone Fani in the Bay of Bengal. (AP: Indian Metrological Department) "We are maximising efforts at all levels for evacuation," Odisha's Special Relief Commissioner, Bishnupada Sethi, said.
Fani was generating maximum sustained winds of up to 180kph, the state-run India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
Cyclone tracker Tropical Storm Risk rated Fani a category-four storm, a notch below the worst level.
The cyclone will make landfall before Friday afternoon, the IMD said.
The Navy has deployed seven warships and has six planes and seven helicopters on standby along with divers, rubber boats, medical teams and relief materials.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted the Government would provide all possible assistance.
In Paradip, television footage showed residents piling bicycles, sewing machines and gas cylinders onto small trucks and leaving for any of nearly 900 shelters supplied with food, water and medicines.
Photo: Dark clouds loom over locals standing at a beach in Puri district of eastern Odisha state. (AP) India's cyclone season can last from April to December, when severe storms batter coastal cities and cause widespread deaths and damage to crops and property in both India and neighbouring Bangladesh.
Technological advancements have helped meteorologists to predict weather patterns well in advance, giving authorities more time to prepare.
In 1999, a super-cyclone battered the coast of Odisha for 30 hours, killing 10,000 people.
A mass evacuation of nearly a million people saved thousands of lives in 2013.
Reuters
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