FARGO — The World Meteorological Organization, an agency of the United Nations which, among its many tasks, oversees the maintenance of weather measuring standards, has ranked the deadliest storms in ...

On the night that Cyclone Bhola made landfall in November 1970, there was a torrential downpour in Dhaka. Watching from a friend’s veranda, Alfred Sommer, a young epidemiologist at the CRL, recalled ...

I have never witnessed before, or since, anything like the scale of destruction I saw from a helicopter flying along Bangladesh’s coastline in May 1991, some days after one of the most powerful ...

Nov 12 is the 55th anniversary of the cyclone of 1970, which took the lives of at least 500,000 people of the coastal areas of Bangladesh. In October of that year, there had been a smaller cyclone ...

From Weather Underground. Note that of these only one has occurred since the supposed onset of man-made global warming. The latest tragic cyclone should come in at #10 or thereabouts. Rank: Name / ...