In-depth articles, guides, and educational content about tropical cyclones, preparedness, and meteorology
A Deep Depression is tracking across the west-central Bay of Bengal toward the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha coast. If IMD upgrades it to a cyclonic storm, its likely name is Arnab. Here is what is confirmed, what is not, and where to follow live updates.
Understanding the science behind tropical cyclone formation in the Indian Ocean. Learn about the conditions required and the process from disturbance to full-fledged cyclone.
Essential steps to prepare for a cyclone. From creating an emergency kit to securing your home, learn how to stay safe when a cyclone threatens your area.
A look back at the most powerful and destructive cyclones to hit the Indian subcontinent, and the lessons we learned from each.
Depression, Cyclonic Storm, Extremely Severe, Super Cyclonic Storm: what each name means, how fast the wind has to blow, and why the numbers you see online often differ.
India has two cyclone basins, and they behave very differently. Here is why the Bay of Bengal is busier, and why the Arabian Sea is catching up.
IMD does not issue just one kind of warning. Learn the four stages of a cyclone bulletin and the colour codes, so you know what to do at each stage.
Most cyclone deaths are caused not by the wind but by the sea. What storm surge is, why it is so deadly, and what the Nargis and Odisha 1999 disasters teach us.
Cyclones do not strike India all year round. They cluster in two windows either side of the monsoon. Here is when, and why.
On 29 October 1999 the strongest cyclone ever recorded in the north Indian Ocean struck Odisha. It killed 9,887 people and forced India to rebuild how it warns and protects its coasts.
Nargis did not hit India, but its story matters to every coastal country. A storm of 165 km/h winds killed 138,373 people, because of the sea it pushed up a river delta.
Amphan was the first Super Cyclonic Storm in the Bay of Bengal since 1999, and it arrived during the COVID-19 lockdown. How more than three million people were moved to safety.
The same stretch of Odisha coast was hit by three powerful cyclones in twenty years. Comparing them shows how much preparation changes the outcome.
Two Super Cyclonic Storms, twelve years apart, set the record for the Arabian Sea. One hit Oman; the other never made landfall.
Eighteen storms, twenty-five years. A year-by-year look at the cyclones in our archive, with their strength, dates and human cost.
