The Tornadoes, Cyclones, Hurricanes & Typhoons Thread.

The first tropical storm of the season in the Indian Ocean:


On August 6, a tropical disturbance formed in the central Indian Ocean. A day later, the JTWC designated the system as Tropical Storm 02S. while MFR designated the system as Tropical Depression 02. Six hours later, Mauritius Meteorological Services upgraded it to moderate tropical storm status and named it Awo.
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Not even a hurricane yet, but TS Erin has caused severe flooding on the semi-arid island nation of Cape Verde:
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Cape Verde floods: State of emergency declared in São Vicente and Santo Antão

The situation is being described as "catastrophic" after islands hit by vast amounts of rain.
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Monday's flash floods were triggered by Tropical Storm Erin, leading to 193mm (7.6in) of rain in just five hours, far above São Vicente's annual average.
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Commenting on the heavy rains, Ester Brito from the country's meteorology institute told Reuters news agency that the weather conditions were uncommon.

"It is a rare situation because what was recorded is above our 30-year climatologist average."

Speaking to local media outlet Expresso das Ilhas, Ms Brito added that the country did not have the radar equipment required to forecast the extent of the rains.
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Limited threat to land, but very rapid intensification:
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Hurricane Erin rapidly intensifies to category five storm

The "extremely powerful" storm "explosively deepened and intensified" overnight, say forecasters
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Hurricane Erin has rapidly intensified into a rare category five hurricane, packing maximum sustained winds of 160mph (260km/h), and expected to gain even more strength.

National Hurricane Center Director Mike Brennan told a briefing that the "extremely powerful" storm had "explosively deepened and intensified" overnight after growing from tropical storm strength on Friday.

Erin is in the Caribbean, expected to pass north of the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico this weekend, bringing up to 6in (15cm) of rain, with potential for flash flooding and mudslides
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Super Typhoon Ragasa:
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Typhoon Ragasa: Taiwan lake bursts as year's strongest storm barrels towards China

Ragasa is the strongest storm anywhere on Earth so far this year.
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Somewhat unusual North Atlantic hurricane:
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Hurricane Gabrielle to hit Azores with torrential rain and enormous waves

Red warnings issued for damaging winds, flooding rain and huge waves as Hurricane Gabrielle approaches the Azores.
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Gabrielle is only the second major hurricane of the Atlantic season, reaching its peak strength of 140mph as a Category 4 hurricane on Monday. It underwent a rapid intensification as it moved across unusually warm ocean waters in the eastern tropical Atlantic, widely 2C above average.

Over recent hours the hurricane has been interacting with an Atlantic weather front - the same front that will bring rain to the UK on Saturday. This has caused the speed that Gabrielle is moving forwards to accelerate to 32mph which is quite rapid for a hurricane.
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Hurricane Melissa to intensify into Category 5 storm as it barrels towards Jamaica

The rare highest-strength storm is set to hit Jamaica by Tuesday, having already caused two deaths in Haiti.
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The cyclone, which had winds of up to 120 mph (195 km/h) as of 06:00 GMT, is currently turning north-west in the Caribbean and is expected to make landfall by Tuesday, according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).

It warns of power cuts and damage to infrastructure as Melissa brings up to 30 inches (76cm) of rain and sea level surges as high as 13ft (4m) above ground. "Seek shelter now," residents have been told.
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I'm glad we don't live in those cyclone/hurricane/tornado belts. Incredible the amount of destruction they cause.
 
Velskoen said:
I'm glad we don't live in those cyclone/hurricane/tornado belts. Incredible the amount of destruction they cause.
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The only good thing about the hurricanes is that you have ample warning to evacuate, if you have that option, as opposed to earthquakes and tornadoes. At least as far as the Gulf is concerned, it was a very quiet hurricane season compared to the destruction of a year ago
 
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