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Cyclone 'Yaas' ravages West Bengal, Odisha as over 20 lakh evacuated; four dead Thick sheets of rain blurred the vast coastline, as the cyclone made landfall around 9 am near Dhamra port in Odisha, with surging waters swamping the mud-and-thatch houses in the low-lying areas, where a massive evacuation drive has been undertaken to move more than 20 lakh people to safety.

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It also wreaked havoc in Odisha, killing at least six people and damaging power and telecom infrastructure in several coastal districts. Odisha government officials estimated the cyclone has affected around On November 16 at 1 p. Iota had strengthened to a category 5 storm with sustained winds of kilometers miles per hour.

Iota made landfall at p. EDT as a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds near mph kph along the northeastern coast of Nicaragua near the town of Haulover, about 30 miles 45 km south of Puerto Cabezas.

Iota developed on Nov. Iota rapidly intensified in the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea. CT on Tuesday, Nov. These two- and three-dimensional observations of precipitation structure are the hallmark of the GPM mission — managed jointly by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA — which aims improve our understanding of the water cycle and extreme weather events, and contributes to improved climate modeling and weather forecasting around the world.

These visualizations depict the GPM satellite pass about seven hours after Hurricane Eta made landfall on the coast of Nicaragua as a category 4 storm.

Eta is the 28th named storm of which beats the record for the most named storms in a single hurricane season. See 27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta for a summary of the hurricane season. This visualization focuses on the disperse outer bands northeast of the eye. As Tropical Storm Zeta makes landfall on the U.

Gulf Coast, NASA has eyes on the storm with an array of Earth-observing instruments and stands ready to aid affected communities with critical data and analysis. Zeta is following a path similar to Hurricane Delta, which after crossing the Yucatan Peninsula made its way across the Gulf of Mexico and struck the Louisiana coast as a Category 2 hurricane on October 9.

Tropical Storm Zeta is the 27th named storm of , which ties the record with for the most named storms. The season is also only the second time in recorded history the other being that the Greek alphabet has been used because the number of named storms has exceeded the number of regular names on the list.

With several weeks still left in the hurricane season, is expected to surpass this previous record for most named storms in one season. Zeta originated in the western Caribbean from a broad area of low pressure. Originally inhibited by changes in wind speeds and directions — also known as wind shear — the system was slow to develop.

But by the late afternoon of Saturday October 24, the National Hurricane Center NHC reported that a tropical depression had formed, the 28 th of the season. Nine hours later the system was upgraded to a tropical storm and given the name Zeta. Over the next twelve hours, Zeta remained nearly stationary and unable to intensify further.

While broad bands of rain circle the storm, GPM shows that the center itself is ragged and the eye of the storm is asymmetric. Warm, moist air rising up through the atmosphere shown by the blue surface indicating the top heights of rain clouds is producing very heavy rainfall shown in dark red and magenta near the center.

These processes release heat near the center of the circulating storm, helping to consolidate it. At the time of the overpass, Zeta was still classified as a weak tropical storm with maximum sustained winds reported at 40 mph by the National Hurricane Center. Zeta began to slowly but steadily strengthen, becoming a strong tropical storm overnight with sustained winds just below hurricane intensity early the next morning.

At this time Zeta was about miles southeast of Cozumel, Mexico and moving northwest. Zeta would go on to make landfall near Tulum at pm CDT as a Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds reported at 80 mph by the National Hurricane Center. After crossing the Yucatan Peninsula, Zeta weakened back down to a tropical storm, but re-emerged over the southern Gulf of Mexico.

Data captured by the DPR show a symmetric storm, with a clear eye surrounded by tall thunderstorms—an indicator that the storm was strengthening after encountering the Yucatan Peninsula a day earlier.

Shortly after this overpass, the National Hurricane Center reported that Zeta had re-intensified to a Category 1 hurricane, and the NHC currently says Zeta is a Category 2 hurricane as it makes landfall along the southern coast of Louisiana Wednesday evening. Cameras outside the International Space Station captured dramatic views of Hurricane Zeta at pm ET October 28, as it churned miles south-southwest of New Orleans packing winds of 90 miles an hour.

Credit: NASA. The program stands ready to continue to work with these agencies and provide assistance for Hurricane Zeta should the need arise. Combining multiple datasets and tools allows NASA to see the big picture of a storm and its impacts, and helps answer broader questions about how communities can better prepare for, and recover from, the storms of the future.

For Hurricane Zeta, researchers will have a unique opportunity to gauge the vulnerability or resilience of a region that was recently impacted by several destructive storms, and to study their compounding effects. Attempting to determine what damage was caused by which storm will be a challenging task on its own. However, attempting to answer these tough questions can provide critical guidance to help communities build back better and strengthen them for the disasters and challenges that lie ahead.

Tropical Storm Nangka made landfall south of Haiphong, Vietnam and began to weaken. In the imagery, strong storms continued to circle the center and were in the northern quadrant. The West Bengal government stopped ferry services on the Hooghly River and urged tourists not to visit seaside resorts with cyclonic storm laying centred km from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.

Heavy rain pounded the southern part of West Bengal and coastal region of Odisha on Sunday affecting normal life, as cyclone Jawad weakened into a depression, the Met department said. Heavy rains lashed parts of Odisha on Sunday as remnants of cyclone Jawad, which has weakened into a deep depression, neared the coast, officials said. The system moved north-northeastwards at 20 kmph in the last six hours and is over west-central Bay of Bengal, 90 km from Gopalpur, km from Puri and km from Paradip, the weather office said in its Though cyclone Jawad fizzled out heavy to moderate rain continues in coastal districts of Odisha.

Khallikot in Ganjam district recorded highest mm rainfall in the last 24 hours ending at 8. Ahead of the expected landfall of cyclonic storm Jawad at the Odisha coast near Puri around noon on Sunday, 18 NDRF teams have been deployed in West Bengal as the sea at Digha has turned rough due to cyclonic circulation over the Bay of Bengal. Cyclone Jawad is likely to weaken further from deep depression into depression by Sunday morning, the India Meteorological Department said.

The Deep Depression remnant of cyclonic storm Jawad lays about km east-northeast of Vizag, km south-southwest of Gopalpur, km south-southwest of Puri and km south-southwest of Paradip.

Odisha's Puri witnesses moderate rainfall as cyclonic storm Jawad is likely to reach around noon today. Deep Depression remnant of cyclonic storm Jawad to weaken further into a Depression, reach Odisha coast near Puri around noon today. Three factors led to Jawad losing its strength, said weather experts. Secondly, north Bay of Bengal — over which the system is now hovering — turns cool in December which cuts off the supply of moisture to cyclonic systems, rendering them weaker.

Finally, cool winds have been blowing into sea from land which is making the system disintegrate.