Day: November 15, 2007

Here’s an image of tropical cyclone Sidr from the NASA Earth Observatory.

Tropical Cyclone Sidr was continuing its northward progress over the Bay of Bengal on November 14, 2007. It was moving north toward the Mouths of the Ganges at a speed of 13 kilometers per hour (8 miles per hour), and winds in the storm system were raging at 220 km/hr (140 mph) near the storm’s center, making it a Category 4 strength tropical cyclone.

Tropical cyclone Sidr is expected to make landfall sometime early Friday morning near Kolkata. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope that it does not have the impact of cyclone Gorky which hit Bangladesh in 1991 killing 138,000 and leaving 10 million homeless.