Associated Press
| May 16, 2013
Dozens were killed and one million people evacuated from their homes as Cyclone Mahasen roared into the southern coast of Bangladesh. Mud and straw huts were flattened by heavy rains and winds, and entire villages were inundated with floods. But M...
ABC News (Australia)
| Aug 26, 2012
Severe weather has interrupted the US Presidential campaign, and threatens to overshadow the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. Organizers of the convention have reworked the schedule to accomodate tropical storm Isaac.
Al Jazeera English
| Aug 24, 2012
Tropical storm Isaac is hurtling toward Haiti, a country still devastated by a massive earthquake two and a half years ago. The deforested mountains around the capital, Port-au-Prince, make it vulnerable to flash flooding. Thousands of quake sur...
Associated Press
| Aug 23, 2012
Florida Governor Rick Scott says national Republican Party officials will decide whether to cancel or delay the upcoming national convention in Tampa due to the threat from Tropical Storm Isaac.
Telegraph.co.uk
| Aug 7, 2012
Relentless rain submerged half of the sprawling Philippine capital Manila, sending emergency crews scrambling to rescue tens of thousands of stranded residents.
Russia Today
| Jul 24, 2012
Typhoon Vincente, the strongest storm to hit Hong Kong in a decade, forced hundreds to seek refuge in emergency shelters and left dozens in hospital. Local transportation systems were suspended and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange delayed opening afte...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 20, 2011
A state of national disaster has been declared in the Philippines. Flash floods triggered by Tropical Storm Washi have killed almost one thousand people, and the local government is preparing temporary communal tombs to house many of the bodies. ...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 18, 2011
At least 436 people have been killed in widespread flooding in the southern Philippines, as tropical storm Washi raked across the region, the Philippine Red Cross said. The Red Cross, told the Associated Press on Saturday that the death toll had ...
— May 14 at 04:00 am
...that Mahasen had maximum sustained winds of 45 knots (85 kilometers per hour) and gusts up to 55 knots (100 kilometers per hour). Within 48 hour...
— Dec 27, 2012 at 04:13 am
The Tropical Cyclone type holds all hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms and other 'warm core' storm systems.
A tropical cyclone is a storm system fueled by the heat released when moist air rises and the water vapor in it condenses. The term describes the storm's origin in the tropics and its cyclonic nature, which means that its circulation is counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. Tropical cyclones are distinguished from other cyclonic windstorms such as nor'easters, European windstorms, and polar lows by the heat mechanism that fuels them, which makes them "warm core" storm systems.
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