The fierce winds of a hurricane are known as tropical cyclones in some parts of the world, so you might expect them to sweep across the entire tropics. But there's one area of the tropics where ...

Aerials show scale of flooding in Indonesia as national disaster try to reach affected areas Normally, cyclones don’t form close to the equator. But Cyclone Senyar formed just north of the equator in ...

More than 900 people are dead, thousands more missing and millions affected by a band of cyclones and extreme monsoonal weather across southern Asia. Torrential rain has triggered the worst flooding ...

WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - People in heavily populated Pacific and Indian Ocean coastal regions beyond the tropics should take heed, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday, because tropical cyclones ...

Even in the world's most active basins for tropical cyclones, there is still a thin ribbon of the ocean in which they usually don't develop or approach. On Dec. 27, 2001, 23 years ago today, a ...

and displacing many from their homes. The region usually experiences a rainy season at the end of the year. But this time, other than the lashing rains, worry had swirled over a cyclone called Senyar ...

Normally a cyclone develops at a minimum distance of 500 km from the equator, but Cyclone Ditwah broke this norm; it began in the southern sea, near Sri Lanka, located about 650 km north of the ...

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HONOLULU (KHON2) — The summer/autumn storm season has arrived in Hawaiʻi; and everyone in Hawaiʻi’s emergency response fields are prepping for the worst, just in case. Being located in the mid-Pacific ...

Nairobi's Mathare residents trying to salvage their belongings after a night of flooding on April 24, 2024. [Robert Tomno, Standard] When it rains, it pours, as they say. In eastern Africa, it has ...