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Preparations are under way on India’s east coast ahead of the expected landfall of a massive cyclone now gathering strength in the Bay of Bengal. Cyclone Phailin is expected to make landfall Saturday afternoon somewhere near the border of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh states…
How Bad Will Cyclone Phailin Be for India? LiveScience
Experts say that the enormous and powerful storm, currently equivalent in strength to a Category 5 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of more than 160 mph (260 km/h), will bring a “catastrophic” storm surge, the water that a storm’s winds push in front of it and that inundate a coastline as the storm makes landfall, said Hal Needham, a climatologist at Louisiana State University. The storm surge is expected to reach heights of 20 feet (6 meters), Needham told LiveScience…
