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Severe Cyclonic Storm Michaung [a] (Burmese pronunciation: [mɪʔtɕʰaʊɰ̃]) was a moderate tropical cyclone which formed in the Bay of Bengal during the 2023 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. Michaung originated as a low-pressure area in the Gulf of Thailand which crossed into the Bay of Bengal and became a deep depression on December 2.
The Indian weather office said Michaung, which had weakened to 'cyclonic storm intensity' by late Tuesday, implying wind speeds of 65-75 kph, was likely to maintain this strength over the next 6 ...
Cyclone Michaung was expected to make landfall on the coast of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh around noon on Tuesday, the country's weather office said, with sustained winds of 90-100 ...
Shortly after that, it intensified into a cyclonic storm, and was assigned the name Michaung. As the storm approached the coast, heavy rain and strong winds battered the affected areas. Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, experienced the worst rains in over 100 years, causing widespread flooding and disrupting daily life.
This system rapidly strengthened into a cyclonic storm, named Midhili, and on November 17, it made landfall near the coast of Bangladesh. After that, in late November, a low pressure area occurred near Gulf of Thailand and later it upgraded into a deep depression on December 2. It developed into a cyclonic storm thereafter and was named Michaung.
The Severe Cyclonic Storm category was historically used to classify all tropical cyclones with winds above 48 knots (89 km/h; 55 mph), however, it was bifurcated during 1988, when the IMD introduced a new category called Severe Cyclonic Storm with a core of hurricane winds for all systems above 64 knots (119 km/h; 74 mph). [2]
The Bay of Bengal's first named tropical cyclone of the season, Mocha, formed Thursday morning, local time, and AccuWeather meteorologists say the strengthening storm could bring significant ...
The Very Severe Cyclonic Storm category was introduced during 1999 alongside Super Cyclonic Storms in order, to replace the previously used Severe Cyclonic Storm with Core of Hurricane Winds. [2] At the time it was the second-highest category with systems having 3-minute sustained wind speeds of between 64–119 kn (119–220 km/h; 74–137 mph ...