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Half a million flee as Cyclone Roanu hits Bangladesh

Half a million flee as Cyclone Roanu hits Bangladesh

At least 23 killed and 500,000 relocated to shelters as cyclone makes landfall triggering flooding and landslides.

Cyclone Roanu battered the coast of southern Bangladesh on Saturday, forcing half a million people to flee their homes and leaving 23 people dead in floods and rain-triggered landslides.

Authorities in low-lying Bangladesh took more than 500,000 people into shelters as the cyclone…

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21 Killed in Bangladesh by Cyclone Roanu

21 Killed in #Bangladesh by #Cyclone #Roanu

Twenty-one people have lost their lives as a direct result of Cyclone Roanu. The cyclone struck Bangladesh, on Saturday, with strong winds, heavy rains, and a storm surge of up to four feet. As many as half a million people have been displaced, due to the storm. Most of the deaths have come from houses collapsing and landslides. Roanu is already slowing down and has lost cyclone strength, so the…

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Extreme weather in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh

The tight spiral you see on this global map shows wind directions and speeds in a storm currently hugging the east coast of India. That tight spiral is the winds of Tropical Cyclone Roanu, the first named storm of this tropical cyclone season. The storm is currently marching up India’s coastline heading northeast and it has already caused a rash of severe weather and damage on the way.

First struck was the island nation of Sri Lanka. This storm dropped almost 40 centimeters of rain on some areas of the island, triggering a series of landslides and mudflows. The most damaging of these mudflows hit a populated area and currently nearly 200 people are missing. An estimated 130,000 people were evacuated from their homes as a result of the storm.

The slow moving cyclone is also triggering flooding in states along India’s East Coast, in some cases delivering months worth of rainfall in a single event. Water temperatures around India are particularly warm for this time of year, and as a consequence the storm is expected to strengthen slightly as it moves northeast prior to making landfall in Bangladesh and Myanmar over the weekend.

Another result of this storm’s circulation is found farther inland. The storm’s circulation is drawing air south that normally is found over deserts farther north. The city of Phalodi in northwest India just recorded the all-time high temperature ever recorded in the nation of India; a record 51°C (123.8°F). That broke a record that had stood since 1886.

-JBB

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References: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36327905 http://phys.org/news/2016-05-tropical-cyclone-01b-roanu.html http://bit.ly/1TiakSr http://bit.ly/1U36aYJ http://on.mash.to/1W53z6Q