Sentence examples for powerful cyclone from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the most powerful cyclone to strike land raged across the North Pacific Ocean in early November 2013.

The number of people left dead after the powerful cyclone that swept through Bangladesh on Thursday rose to more than 3,100 yesterday, the government said.

Scientists say the devastation caused by Pam, the most powerful cyclone to hit the South Pacific since records began, was aggravated by climate change.

The Italian island of Sardinia has been hit by a powerful cyclone, causing devastating flooding that has left at least 18 dead and many others missing.

A storm of comparable magnitude in April 1991 devastated the eastern shore of Bangladesh, and another powerful cyclone devastated the coastal Indian state of Orissa in October 1999.

Both Andhra Pradesh and Orissa were hit two weeks ago by a powerful cyclone that prompted authorities to evacuate nearly a million people.

It is unusual for there to be four powerful cyclones at the same time.

And both were hit by powerful cyclones and affected by coral bleaching in the mid-1990s.

Burma's monsoon rains are a lifeline for farmers, but the rains and frequent powerful cyclones can also prove deadly, with landslides and flash floods a common occurrence.

Dr Amato Evan of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, US, and his colleagues suggest that the giant pollution cloud reduces the surface temperature of the Arabian Sea, which in turn reduces wind shear and triggers the formation of more powerful cyclones.

Teams of rescue workers were on Saturday night racing to reach the remote Pacific island chain of Vanuatu, which has been devastated by one of the most powerful cyclones ever recorded.