Cyclonic storm ‘Remal’
New Delhi: Cyclone Remal is in the news these days. The effect of this storm is being seen in the coastal areas of West Bengal. The process of landfall has started from midnight. During this time, the maximum speed of the cyclone in the sea was recorded to be 135 km per hour.
The areas around West Bengal where the effect of this cyclone is visible include different areas of Birbhum, Nadia, East Burdwan, Bankura, East Medinipur, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Kolkata, Bidhannagar. Heavy rain and wind have started here.
What does Remal mean? How are names kept?
Ramal is an Arabic word which means sand. It got this name from Oman. Actually such names are given so that the public can easily remember the disasters. Storms started being named to convey information about such disasters to the public.
The storms are named by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). A total of 185 countries are members of this UN organization. In fact, WMO established the Panel on Tropical Cyclones in 1972. In the year 2000, when the 27th meeting of the PTC was held in Muscat, the capital of Oman, all the countries decided to name the storms arising in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Ocean.
The result of which was that storms started being named after the year 2004. In the year 2020, a total of 169 storms were named and released.
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