Cyclone Shaheen

[crimsone]

So, erm.... Saudi Arabia it apparently bracing for flooding as a remnant deep depression sweeps in - ex-Shaheen.

I wouldn't normally be all that interested in the North Indian Ocean basin, but looking in on the track (per https://mausam.imd.gov.in/ ), it's pretty far north.

There's an image on wikipedia showing tracks from 1970 to 2005, and well, compare and contrast.



It would appear that this is a track that just doesn't happen... I don't know what happened between 2005 and now, but it looks like a pretty special track regardless!

 

Edited October 4, 2021 by Jo Farrow
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[Jo Farrow]

 Steff used to work at Aljazeera Weather so still has contacts in the region

[Atmogenic]

what an amazing storm 

Shaheen headed for historic landfall in Oman » Yale Climate Connections

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The cyclone is pushing west on an unprecedented track through the Gulf of Oman.

 

[Jo Farrow]

Shaheen was Gulab NASA "Tropical Cyclone Gulab made a landfall in the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, India on September 26, 2021. At landfall, the storm sported maximum sustained winds of about with wind speed of about 56 km/h (90 km/h) according to a report by published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Services website Reliefweb. Once over land, Gulab weakened quickly and transitioned to a depression as it crossed India.

On September 29, the remnants of Gulab moved over the north-eastern Arabian Sea. By September 30, the system had strengthened and was re-named Tropical Cyclone Shaheen. Several reporting agencies, including the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) used the name Tropical Cyclone Shaheen-Gulab. At 0300 UTC on October 2 (11:00 p.m. EDT on October 1) the JTWC advised that Shaheen-Gulab had strengthened substantially, now carrying maximum sustained winds of about 75 mph (120 km/h). This is the equivalent of a weak Category 1 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Shaheen-Gulab was located about 290 mi (467 km) west of Karachi, Pakistan and was tracking west-northwestward. A landfall over Oman is expected." 

@OmanMeteorology @WeatherOmanya  Oman flooding

 

[crimsone]

Wow. Hard baked earth and heavy rail is a really rough combination.

[crimsone]

Looks like somebody's garden wall giving way under a weight of water it was holding back. Also reading that there's a death toll of around 13 in Oman.
 

 

[matty40s]