Cyclone Nargis

Here are my thoughts on the Cyclone Nargis.

Nargis formed into a tropical cyclone on April 27, 2008, in the central bay of Bengal about 360 miles off the southeast coast of India. Cyclone Nargis was, when they landed at the mouth of the Ayeyawaddy (Irrawaddy) River, about 220 km south-west of Rangoon, a category four storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane, with sustained winds of 132 mph. Nargis is the deadliest cyclone to hit Asia since 1991, when 143,000 people died in Bangladesh from a cyclone in the country this year. The formation of Nargis in the Bay of Bengal coincides with the start of hurricane season in the northern Indian Ocean, which generally runs from April to December.

Burma hit by Nargis, is undergoing a natural disaster and human. As Nargis swept the Irrawaddy River delta, hitting the region with winds, storm surges and heavy rains, tens of thousands of lives lost. Burma is isolated from the rest of the world against the best times. The nature of the disaster, the vast area involved and the secrecy and mistrust of the Burmese government, it is impossible for an accurate account of the tragic loss of rights to obtain, but some are treasures of life lost in the hundreds of thousands, instead of dozens. This brings the disaster of Nargis on equal terms with the tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 killed 300,000 people.

Tropical storms are among the systems most powerful and destructive weather events on earth. They are a product of the interaction between the atmosphere and oceans. The pressure recorded in the centers of tropical cyclones are among the lowest that occur on the surface of the earth at sea level

Despite the long season, region, Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, has averaged a little over five such storms per year, with only two full tropical cyclones. Tropical cyclones are compact, round of storms, generally some 320 km (200 miles) in diameter, whose winds revolve around a central area of low pressure. The winds are driven by the nucleus at low pressure and the rotation of the Earth, which deflects the path of the wind through a phenomenon known as the Coriolis force. As a result, tropical cyclones rotate in an anti-clock (or cyclones) direction in the northern hemisphere and a clockwise (or anticyclonic) direction in the Southern Hemisphere.

In the world's tropical cyclones were informally second given names of women in the Army U. S. Air Corp and Navy meteorologists (after their girlfriends or women) who were monitoring and forecasting of hurricanes on the Pacific Ocean. From 1950 to 1952, tropical cyclones of the North Atlantic Ocean were identified by the phonetic alphabet (Able-Baker-Charlie-etc. While a hurricane can generate strong winds and heavy rains, they are also able to produce high waves and storm surges harmful. Although their effects on human populations can be devastating, tropical cyclones can also relieve drought.

Tropical cyclones are known by different names in different parts of the world. In the Atlantic Ocean and North Pacific Ocean, north-east, they are called hurricanes, and the Pacific Northwest around the Philippines, Japan and China the storms are called typhoons. In the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans are alternately referred to as tropical cyclones, typhoons or simply cyclones. All these different names refer to the same type of storm.

With rising global temperatures adding energy to the weather systems on Earth there is a chance that storms across Nargis May be greater, once again the huge impact of the huge population of vulnerable coastal areas and Delta in the world.