The weather is something that impacts all of our lives in the same way. It controls how water is distributed across the planet giving us freshwater and influence our agriculture. But extreme weather can cause, chaos and devastation even when we know it's coming. With climate change, these events are becoming increasingly deadly.

Now, Tauktae cyclon in India is one such latest example of this shift.

Tauktae cyclone is the first cyclone in this year which created in Arabian sea So, in this topic, we talk about tauktae cyclone which affects in many areas like Maharastra, Gujrat, Karnataka. 

In the past, the maximum cyclone was created in the bay of Bengal if I say as an example 5 cyclones created then 4 created in the bay of Bengal, and 1 in the Arabian sea.

But in recent years due to continuous changes in the environment cyclones in the Arabian sea are increasing. In the last year, the 2020 ‘’Nisarga'' cyclone hits the bank of Maharashtra. In 2019, ‘’Vayu'' cyclone in Gujrat, and In 2018, ‘’mekanu'' hit the bank of Oman. In all these cyclone centers is The Arabian sea.

First, we talk about cyclones then we discuss the reason behind the cyclone.

What is a cyclone?

A cyclone is essentially a large weather system that has particular characteristics. They are formed around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, which causes winds to rotate inward in a clockwise direction. It looks like a coiled snake.

We experience them every year, mainly in tropical areas.

Reason Behind the Cyclone

• Due to increasing sea surface temperature in the last 40 years.
• In recent year temp. increase rapidly 1.2 to 1.4°C.
• Due to increasing temp. in ocean water, it creates energy which converts into the cyclone.
• Generally temp. of the Arabian sea is lower than the Bay of Bengal but in recent rapidly increasing the temp. of the Arabian sea becoming a center of cyclones.
• Due to global warming, these cyclones rapidly increase their speed which is called rapid intensification.

If we talk about the latest example tauktae its speed on Saturday is 80-90km/hr. and on Sunday its speed increase up to 145-155km/hr.

 On Monday its speed touches 185km/hr which increasing rapidly.

Note-: If we talk about the name of the cyclone ‘’Tauktae'' which is given by Mayanmar which means ‘’Gecko''.

Name of cyclone decided by world metrological department.

Difference b/w cyclone, Hurricanes, and Typhoons

Essentially, they are the same thing, but it's where they are formed that's important.

• Cyclone from over the Indian and south pacific oceans.
• Hurricanes form over the north Atlantic and northeast Pacific.
• Typhoons from over the northwest pacific.

So we should always ready for these unpredictable weather system.