{"id":9289,"date":"2022-10-21T09:46:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T04:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9289"},"modified":"2025-03-29T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:54:08","slug":"october-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/october-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"October Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About October Storms:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The months of October-November and May-June see storms of severe intensity develop in the North Indian Ocean \u2014 comprising the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea \u2014 with an average of five developing in a calendar year.<\/li>\n<li>In the past 131 years, October saw 61 storms develop in the Bay of Bengal, according to the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre (RSMC).<\/li>\n<li>The east coast, notably Odisha, has faced many of its severest storms in October, including the Super Cyclone of 1999.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Formation:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>After the withdrawal of the Southwest monsoon, there is a rise in ocean heating, which leads to rise in sea surface temperature over the Bay of Bengal.<\/li>\n<li>The atmospheric moisture availability over the ocean region, too, is higher.<\/li>\n<li>So, when remnant systems from the South China Sea reach the Bay of Bengal, they get conducive conditions, aiding the formation and intensification of cyclones in October.<\/li>\n<li>In some years, ocean-atmospheric factors hinder this phenomenon.<\/li>\n<li>For instance, in 2020, weak La Nina conditions along the equatorial Pacific Ocean prevented a cyclonic formation near India\u2019s coasts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Cyclones in the Arabian Sea:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In comparison with the Bay of Bengal, only 32 storms have developed in the Arabian Sea in October since 1891.<\/li>\n<li>Climatologically too, the IMD states that of the five storms formed in the North Indian Ocean in a calendar year, four are in the Bay of Bengal and one in Arabian Sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-climate\/october-storm-in-bay-of-bengal-after-3-years-when-where-it-is-likely-to-hit-8221781\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The months of October-November and May-June see storms of severe intensity develop in North Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}