Meet Cyclone Nargis--image courtesy of CIMSS--which may be set to terrorize the Bay of Bengal region. This storm is expected to steadily intensify to Category 4 or higher, and then hit something. That something could be India, Bangladesh, or Burma/Myanmar...not a development that anyone in this vulnerable region needs.
Read more for my take on the developing Nargis over at the Daily Green.
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A "pre-existing condition" in the North Indian Ocean stoked the sudden intensification of last year's Tropical Cyclone Nargis just before its devastating landfall in Burma, according to a new NASA/university study.
* UPDATE: The death toll from the Myanmar cyclone has exceeded 10,000 people. *
chris:
glad to see that you have picked up and are covering this storm. too many people are still in flimsy dwellings from cyclone sidr...and monsoon and now another cyclone approaches.