More than a thousand dead in Bangladesh cyclonePosted Nov16, 2007 at 05:31 PMA cyclone is the same thing as a hurricane, it's just called by a different name in the Indian Ocean. Bangladesh, an extremely crowded lowland nation with persistently humid weather and extremely warm ocean water to the south, is particularly susceptible to deadly cyclones. The most recent has killed more than a thousand. |
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Kevin Myatt works on the copy desk for The Roanoke Times and is its principal weather geek, writing a weekly weather column and advising the newsroom on weather topics. He helps guide students on a storm chasing trip to the central U.S. each May and was an editor for "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States." .....Advertisement.....
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