The Joint Typhoon Warning Center finally gave in and rated the storm at 135 knots--or 155 mile per hour winds. This is the cutoff for Category 5. There may be some weakening by landfall, but what we're expecting is a borderline Cat 4/Cat 5 striking along the path shown above. You've gotta figure the storm surge is going to be more than 20 feet. There are supposed to be vertical evacuations in Bangladesh, but I just don't know what's happening on the ground....
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So, it has started: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115/wl_sthasia_afp/sasiabangladeshindi…
Chris,
I know it may be a bit early for this, but how does this storm compare in size, strength, the usual meterics, to others?
Greg,
It's a Category 5 at its peak, that's never good. And looks like a very strong Category 4 at landfall. Jeff Masters, who has more expertise than I, says, "Sidr is the second strongest cyclone to make landfall in Bangladesh since reliable record keeping began in 1877." In this region it seems you are going to get a storm surge upwards of twenty feet in such a storm.
I understand that large parts of Bangladesh are scarcely two metres above sea level; in fact, half of the country is less than 10 metres above sea level. It is largely river delta from the confluence of three great rivers. That makes it difficult to head for higher ground - in many places, there is none. So people have to depend on finding reinforced structures.
It is may be our bad luck to get the cyclone staff every decade. Oh ! The weather ! We are third world in sense of economy as well as weather ! Global warming !
Is is only because of Global warming ?
Or something else ?
What we should do ?
We can't just leave the coumtry ?
We have to live here with this destiny ?
We have to survive. We just need a moral support from rest of the world.
Someone from Bangladesh.