Overall Orange alert Tropical Cyclone for MEGH-15
Off-shore

Event summary

Tropical Cyclone MEGH-15 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID TC 1000234
Name MEGH-15
From - To 05 Nov - 10 Nov
Exposed countries Off-shore
Exposed population 60 thousand in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed 204 km/h Category 3
Maximum storm surge 0.3 m (08 Nov 11:00 UTC)
Vulnerability --

GDACS Score

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Wind Storm surge Rainfall GDACS score
GDACS JTWC 65 km/h 0.3 m n.a. 0.5
Single TC: maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge, rainfall)
HWRF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
GFS n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
ECMWF n.a n.a. n.a. n.a.
Maximum expected impact (wind, storm surge and rainfall) using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 123 | About casualties: 31 | Last hour: 0

Mauri Actu - Le site d’information mourassiloun.com, a publié ce matin ... Fri, 13 Nov 2015 01:59:00 +0100.

Mauri Actu - Le site d’information mourassiloun.com, a publié ce matin un billet sous le titre : ‘’Des essaims de criquet pèlerins envahissent des zones du Trarza ’’. Pour confirmer et et souligner la caractère dangereux de la menace, ‘’mou
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NASA adds up rainfall from two historic Yemen tropical cyclonesThu, 12 Nov 2015 20:09:00 +0100.

Chapala brought over a year's worth of rain and flooding to the south-central coast. Megh made landfall just to the northeast of the coastal city of Aden, which is further west than where Chapala made landfall, and only as a tropical storm.
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La FAO met en garde contre de possibles invasions de criquet dues aux ... Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:47:00 +0100.

NEW YORK (Nations Unies - L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) a averti mercredi que les pluies torrentielles et les cyclones récents favoriseraient une recrudescence acridienne en Afrique du nord-oues
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Afrique: La FAO avertit que les pluies torrentielles et les cyclones r ... Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:25:00 +0100.

communiqué de presse. Rome Stricte vigilance requise en Afrique du nord-ouest, dans la Corne de l'Afrique et au Yémen. Les pluies inhabituellement fortes et généralisées qui sont tombées récemment dans le nord-ouest de l'Afrique, la Corne d
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (46), INFORM (1), (1),