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- Cyclones Gulab and Shaheen were two consecutive tropical cyclones that caused considerable damage to South and West Asia.
- Gulab impacted the eastern India.
- Shaheen impacted Pakistan, Iran, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
- Gulab was the third named storm of the 2021 North Indian Ocean cyclone season.
- Gulab's origins can be traced back to a low-pressure area situated over the Bay of Bengal.
- Gulab made landfall in India's Andhra Pradesh.
- The system continued moving westward, emerging into the Arabian Sea.
- The system got restrengthened into a Cyclonic Storm,
- The IMD named it as Shaheen.
- The system gradually strengthened as it entered the Gulf of Oman.
- It made an extremely rare landfall in Oman as a Category 1-equivalent cyclone.
- The name Gulab, suggested by Pakistan, means rose in Urdu/Hindi.
- The name Shaheen, provided by Qatar, means falcon in Arabic.
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