"Recent tropical cyclones in southeast and south Asia,along with heavy rains and flooding, have claimed at least 1,800 lives, displaced over a million people and affected close to 11 million more. In the past weeks, one tropical cyclone known as Ditwah struck Sri Lanka, triggering landslides and what is believed to be the worst floods in the country's recent history. Another called Koto caused havoc in the Philippines and Vietnam, and a third dubbed Senyar caused flooding and landslides across three countries."
"That one was considered rare because it formed over the Strait of Malacca a narrow stretch of water between Peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Climatologist Fredolin Tangang, emeritus professor at the National University of Malaysia, who served as vice-chair of a working group on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) described it as "very unusual." It is just the second documented case of a tropical cyclone forming in the strait, according to NASA."
"What exactly are tropical cyclones? Cyclones are massive storms formed over tropical waters. They have different names depending on where they appear.In the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, they are referred to as hurricanes, in East Asia, they are called typhoons, and in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, they are simply named cyclones the umbrella term for all such storms."
A series of tropical cyclones and heavy rains across Southeast and South Asia caused widespread death, displacement and damage, with at least 1,800 fatalities, over one million people displaced and close to 11 million affected. Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka, triggering landslides and some of the worst recorded flooding there; Koto battered the Philippines and Vietnam; Senyar produced floods and landslides across three countries and was notable for forming over the narrow Strait of Malacca. Earlier, Fung-wong hit the Philippines with a vast 1,800 km diameter impact. Tropical cyclones form over warm tropical waters and receive regional names such as hurricanes, typhoons or cyclones, with intensity classified by wind speed on scales like the Saffir-Simpson scale.
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