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Rising populations and a warming climate mean storm surges from super cyclones are likely to affect increasing numbers of vulnerable people.
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Rising populations and a warming climate mean storm surges from super cyclones are likely to affect increasing numbers of vulnerable people.
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Any powerful systems like tropical storms carry risk of disturbing the usual wind pattern and leave lot of lead time for restoration of normalcy. Monsoon onset under normal conditions of strengthening of trade winds, which in turn accelerates the cross equatorial flow is considered ideal for smooth beginning.
Bay of Bengal (BoB) is warmer than the Arabian Sea and therefore is a hotspot of cyclones. Due to lower sea surface temperature (SST) and unfavorable wind shear, high intensity cyclones were relatively less frequent in the Arabian Sea (AS) than in BoB. Atmospheric dynamics are different f
Summer Equinox has commenced on 20thMarch and the Sun has started its march in to the Northern Hemisphere. Also, the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone will become more active over the Indian Seas. Most cyclonic disturbances pop up in this zone of convection and rev up later on either side of Indian coastline.