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Cyclone Bulbul
November 24 , 2019
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- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert in Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha over Cyclone Bulbul in the Bay of Bengal.
- The landfall of the cyclone was between Sagar Islands (West Bengal) and Khepupara (Bangladesh).
- The cyclone has been named by Pakistan.
- It is the seventh named storm of the unusually active 2019 North Indian Ocean cyclone season.
- It is the highest in the last 34 years.
- It will also be the second storm to form in the Bay of Bengal this year after extremely severe Cyclone Fani in April-May.
- The Arabian sea, usually not known to be prone to cyclones, has had four major cyclones this year — very severe cyclone Vayu, very severe cyclone Hikaa, super cyclone Kyarr and extremely severe cyclone Maha.
- This equals the record for the highest number of severe cyclones in the Arabian sea in the last 117 years.
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