Overall Green alert Flood for India
in India

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Flood India can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1100480
Death: 37
Displaced: 71000
Countries: India
From - To 19 May - 03 Jun

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Tropical Cyclone Amphan, India and Bangladesh, May 2020On 16 May, a new Tropical Cyclone named "Amphan" formed over India Ocean and started moving north over the Bay of Bengal, toward north-east India coastal area and south of Bangladesh. By 19 May the influence of Amphan had already been felt with heavy rain reported in Odisha, India, and Feni in Bangladesh. After making landfall on 20 May, string winds caused widespread destruction in Odisha and West Bengal in India, and parts of Bangladesh. As of 22 May, 77 deaths in India and 25 in Bangladesh had been reported. Heavy rain caused flash flooding in West Bengal, India, including Kolkata Airport. Heavy rain and storm surge caused flooding in parts of Bangladesh including Bagerhat, where an embankment collapsed, and Cox's Bazar where rain caused landslides damaging shelters in relief camps. Heavy rain in the wake of Amphan caused flooding in Assam from 22 May and a landslide in Sikkim on 24 May (both reported separately).Tue 19 May 2020FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 36 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

DATELINE INDIA: More to come?Thu, 04 Jun 2020 18:07:00 +0200.

If astrological predictions are anything to go by, the corona virus is not the only disaster that we have to brace for this year. There is more to come. Taking at face value, the virus is only the beginning of the series of unfortunate and
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MIL-OSI Global: Cyclone Amphan: supercomputers predicted it well in ad ... Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:51:00 +0200.

– By Hannah Cloke, Professor of Hydrology, University of Reading. On May 18, a massive tropical cyclone with sustained winds of nearly 150 miles per hour was barrelling across the Bay of Bengal towards the low-lying coasts of East India and
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Cyclone Amphan: supercomputers predicted it well in advance – saving t ... Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:51:00 +0200.

Disclosure statement. Hannah Cloke advises the Environment Agency and the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts on flood risk, flood forecasting and early warning. She works with local flood groups and advises local and nationa
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Two days of rain have revived the roar of waterfalls in SalalahSat, 30 May 2020 12:06:00 +0200.

Two days of rain have renewed the waterfalls that only ever exist during this sort of weather in the Omani governate of Dhofar. The crescent of inland cliffs that front the Dhofar Mountains that surround Salalah, and the flood plain beneath
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (7), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),