Cyclone Fantala Just Became the Indian Ocean's Most Powerful Storm on Record

[Creag]

Winds of 170 mph can lift and hurl heavy cars, even peel the bark from trees. So it’s a good thing not many people are in the waters north of Madagascar right now, where Tropical Cyclone Fantala just made history as the strongest-known storm in the Indian Ocean.

The mighty tempest spun itself up to 150 knots (173 mph) on Monday, surpassing the 145-knot (167 mph) barrage of Super Cyclonic Storm Gonu in 2007. (Reliable records only date to 1990, for what it’s worth.) That would make it a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale. It simmered down to about 85 knots on Wednesday, and is expected to wander southeast for a couple days before running out of steam.

http://www.citylab.com/weather/2016/04/cyclone-fantala-indian-ocean-storm-record/479046/

http://m.seychellesnewsagency.com/a...saster+areas+after+Cyclone+Fantala+hits+twice

 

[Aghori]

Read that as 'Cyclone Fanta'

Had a mental image of a whirlwind of orange soft drink.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

no expected near any land?

 

[Pitbull]

Is that the reason for the cloudy skies over Gauteng today? Seems like we might just get rain /dance

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Is that the reason for the cloudy skies over Gauteng today? Seems like we might just get rain /dance

with the weather in JHB today, who knows,

but since the weather is all "connected" we might get snow or something weird happening....

 

[Creag]

Of all days, they choose to do a fire drill. Have they no soul?!!

Edit: it's organised chaos