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  2. Effects of tropical cyclones - Wikipedia

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    The effects of tropical cyclones include heavy rain, strong wind, large storm surges near landfall, and tornadoes. The destruction from a tropical cyclone, such as a hurricane or tropical storm, depends mainly on its intensity, its size, and its location. Tropical cyclones remove forest canopy as well as change the landscape near coastal areas ...

  3. Tropical cyclones and climate change - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Tropical cyclones use warm, moist air as their source of energy or fuel. As climate change is warming ocean temperatures, there is potentially more of this fuel available. [3] Between 1979 and 2017, there was a global increase in the proportion of tropical cyclones of Category 3 and higher on the Saffir–Simpson scale.

  4. Effects of Cyclone Amphan in India - Wikipedia

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    Effects of the 2020 North Indian cyclone season in India; Cyclone Sidr (2007) — A storm that had a similar intensity, took a similar track and devastated similar areas. 1999 Odisha Cyclone — A storm that became the most intense tropical cyclone in the basin. Cyclone Aila (2009) — A cyclone that devastated India and Bangladesh

  5. Extreme weather - Wikipedia

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    A hurricane is a strong tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean or northeastern Pacific Ocean. A typhoon is the same thing which occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. In the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, comparable storms are referred to as "tropical cyclones". In modern times, on average around 80 to 90 named tropical cyclones ...

  6. Tropical cyclone effects by region - Wikipedia

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    Tropical cyclones regularly affect the coastlines of most of Earth's major bodies of water along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. Also known as hurricanes, typhoons, or other names, tropical cyclones have caused significant destruction and loss of human life, resulting in about 2 million deaths since the 19th century.

  7. Storm surge - Wikipedia

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    SLOSH inputs include the central pressure of a tropical cyclone, storm size, the cyclone's forward motion, its track, and maximum sustained winds. Local topography, bay and river orientation, depth of the sea bottom, astronomical tides, as well as other physical features, are taken into account in a predefined grid referred to as a SLOSH basin.

  8. Tropical Cyclone Cheneso causes deadly flooding in Madagascar

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    The warm tropical waters of the channel allowed Cheneso to peak as a tropical cyclone Wednesday, Jan. 25, prior to making a second landfall Thursday, this time on the western coast of Madagascar.

  9. Cyclone Nivar - Wikipedia

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    Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Nivar [a] (/ n ɪ ˈ v ɑːr /) was a tropical cyclone which brought severe impacts to portions of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in late November 2020. The eighth depression and fourth named storm of the 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Nivar originated from a disturbance in the Intertropical Convergence Zone.