Intense Extratropical “Bomb Cyclones” Drench US West Coast
October 10 – 25, 2021 One of the most intense extratropical cyclones ever to strike the Pacific Northwest drew an equally historic amount of moisture…
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Tauktae: An Unusually Powerful Tropical Cyclone Strikes India
Tropical cyclones are scarce in the Arabian Sea, but unusually warm ocean temperatures helped fuel this storm. An unusually powerful tropical cyclone named Tauktae struck…
Cyclone Seroja Slams Australia, Causing Significant Damage to Coastal Towns
The category three cyclone made a rare landfall in Western Australia, causing significant damage to coastal towns. On April 11, 2021, a category three storm…
Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasa Bearing Down on Island Nation of Fiji
The South Pacific island nation of Fiji is bracing for the arrival of severe tropical cyclone Yasa. Citizens were told to evacuate low-lying areas in…
Cyclone Gati Makes Historic Landfall in Somalia – More Than a Year’s Worth of Rain in Two Days
On November 22, 2020, Cyclone Gati became the strongest storm to hit Somalia since satellite records began five decades ago. Gati made landfall with maximum…
Scientists Propose Possible Mechanism for Saturn’s Polar Cyclones
Atmospheric scientists from MIT have developed a simple model that may predict cyclone activity on other planets. For the last decade, astronomers have observed curious…
Hurricane Sandy Viewed from Space
Hurricane Sandy has been downgraded to a post-cyclone storm, and most of the devastating effects of the hurricane are past, but people in 22 states…