The first ever tropical cyclone in history is about to hit the Gulf of Oman after which it makes landfall in Iran
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Area has no experience dealing with this weather, and there are a lot of development and industrial and oild facilities at risk.
The Nimitz and Stennis were in the gulf of Oman about 3 days ago "showing the flag" (in you face, Iran), presumably the US still has enough weather satellites to have seen this coming and backed them out into the Arabian Sea east of the cyclone track.
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We're starting to get some sense of what Cyclone Gonu did to Oman. The early reports seem to suggest that there were effective evacuations and thus relatively few fatalities (around 25 with a similar number missing).
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There's a really good Gonu thread over on The Oil Drum, focussing mainly on the potential for damage to oil / gas facilities and disruption to shipping. Storm tracks, surge models, all that jazz...
At the peak level the storm was a "super cyclonic storm" corresponding a Category 4/5 hurricane... not bad for a cyclone in a part of the world where hurricane-level storms are very rare. Gonu will be the first cyclone to hit Oman since the records began in the '40s.