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Cyclone Biparjoy is battering Kutch hours after it made landfall on the Indian subcontinent. Before the cyclone’s arrival on Indian land, UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi yesterday shared some images of the cyclone taken from the International Space Station.
Al Neyadi saidthe images and video shared by him on Twitter were taken more than two days earlier when the cyclone was forming in the Arabian Sea. Earlier this year, Al Neyadi made history as both the first Arab astronaut to go on a long-term space mission and the first Arab astronaut to go on a spacewalk.
Cyclone Biparjoy is a tropical cyclone that is expected to generate winds with speeds of between 125 and 135 kilometres per hour. It could cause storm surges of between two to three metres in height, the destruction of thatched houses, damage to pucca houses and roads, flooding, damage to crops, plantations and orchards, and disruption of railways and power systems in the northern and western coastal districts of Gujarat, according to India’s Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre (RSMC).
Tropical cyclones like Biparjoy are low-pressure wind systems that form over warm tropical waters. They often dissipate after moving over land or over cooler oceans.
When warm tropical oceans have high sea surface temperatures, clusters of thunderstorms can develop over them. If these clusters continue in an area of low pressure, they can start rotating. And with the right conditions, the clusters can get bigger and bigger and sustain themselves while developing into a tropical cyclone.
