“Areas that aren’t really affected now could be hit much harder in future,” warns top meteorologist. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS – Climate change does not make cyclones, such as that battering Bangladesh, more frequent, but it does render them more intense and destructive, according to climatologists and weather experts.
“It is characterised by rain/storm clouds that start rotating and generate intense rains and winds, and a storm surge created by the wind,” he added. Meteorological agencies monitoring them use different scales to categorise them, depending on the oceanic basin in which they occur. People walking among the debris after Cyclone Mocha made landfall in Sittwe, in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, on May 15. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
“Climate change, therefore, creates the conditions in which more powerful storms can form, intensify rapidly and persist to reach land, while carrying more water,” said the WWA.The fierce winds produced by cyclones generate storm surges that can cause coastal flooding.
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