Cyclone (Hurricane) Mocha

[Yazata]

This is a big category 4 (strengthening to cat 5) in the Bay of Bengal, headed towards Bangladesh. It will probably graze the west coast of Myanmar as well.

Bangladesh is a very poor and very low lying, swampy, river-delta place. As such, it's very prone to floods. Powerful storm surge has the potential of inundating a good portion of this exceedingly overpopulated country. (More than half the population of the US, crammed into an area the size of Wisconsin.)

This incoming storm has the potential of causing millions of fatalities! It could turn out to the biggest disaster in the world this year.

https://twitter.com/WeatherProf/status/1...2353112065

[Magical Realist]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cyclone-moc...acuations/

"A powerful Cyclone Mocha has battered the coastlines of Myanmar and Bangladesh, but the timely evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from low-lying areas in the two countries appeared to have prevented mass casualties on Monday.

Cyclone Mocha has been the most powerful Pacific cyclone yet this year, equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane. It made landfall over Myanmar and Bangladesh on Sunday afternoon local time with winds gusting over 134 miles per hour and torrential rainfall.

India, which earlier fell in the predicted path of the storm, remained largely untouched. Myanmar faced the brunt of the storm's fury.

At least six people were killed in the country and more than 700 others injured despite the massive evacuation from coastal areas over the last few days.

Strong winds, heavy rains and a storm surge that brought floods destroyed hundreds of homes and shelters in Myanmar's low-lying Rakhine state, where all the deaths were reported. Myanmar's ruling military junta declared the region a natural disaster area on Monday."