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India Must Rename Cyclone Phailin And Call Attention To Global Warming
2013-10-12 08:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Counter Currents: Last month I wrote two articles (here, here), gave an interview to The Real News Network (here), and an interview to Uprising Radio (here) about the devastating floods in Colorado. With Boulder as its epicenter, the floods damaged more than 2,000 squares miles along the Colorado Front Range--from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins. Ten people were killed, nearly 18,000 homes were damaged or destroyed, hundreds of miles of road were washed out, and thousands of oil and gas wells flooded resulting in...
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India on red alert as "super cyclone" nears east coast
2013-10-12 07:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rain and wind lashed India's east coast on Saturday, forcing more than 400,000 people to flee to storm shelters as one of the country's largest cyclones closed in, threatening to cut a wide swathe of devastation through farmland and fishing hamlets. Filling most of the Bay of Bengal, Cyclone Phailin was about 200 km (124 miles) offshore by noon on Saturday, satellite images showed, and was expected to hit land by nightfall. It was on the verge of becoming a "super cyclone", and was expected...
Monster Cyclone Phailin Poses Deadly Threat to India
2013-10-11 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: One of the strongest tropical cyclones to form in the Bay of Bengal since 1980 is heading for the northeast Indian state of Odisha, packing winds of close to 160 mph and a storm surge of at least 10 feet, but possibly much higher. The storm, named Phailin -- a Thai word for "sapphire' -- has intensified after weakening for a time on Thursday. By some measures, it may already have become the strongest storm on record in the Indian Ocean. It is expected to make landfall in Odisha or the far northeastern...
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Powerful cyclone Phailin heads for India's east coast
2013-10-11 04:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A powerful cyclone intensified on Friday and was heading towards India's east coast, authorities said, forecasting a risk to life and extensive damage to property when it makes landfall in 36 hours. Satellite images showed the storm in the Bay of Bengal to be about half the size of India. Cyclone Phailin is expected to hit between Kalingapatnam in Andhra Pradesh state and Paradip in Odisha state on Saturday evening as a very severe cyclonic storm with a maximum sustained wind speed of 205-215...
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Post-Tropical Cyclone NARDA Graphics
2013-10-10 17:09:11| National Hurricane Center (East Pacific)
5-Day Uncertainty Track last updated Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:36:17 GMT Wind Speed Probabilities last updated Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:05:45 GMT
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