Group

5
Burma
~Tropical Cyclone
Nargis
Grou
Group
p5 members:
Shiu Hoi Man (13)
Tang Tse Him (14)
Tsang Man Kit (15)
Tsui Ka Lam (32)
Wong Hiu Ying (33)
Wong Man Wa (34)
The location
of Burma
Tropical cyclone
• Storm system characterized by a low pressure center
and numerous thunderstorms
• Fueled by a different heat mechanism than other
cyclonic windstorms
→ "warm core" storm systems
• Produce extremely powerful winds and torrential
rain
• Produce high waves and damaging storm surge
 The factors of
tropical
cyclone
• Water temperatures of at least 26.5 °C
(79.7 °F) are needed
• A depth of at least 50 metres (160 ft)
• Rapid cooling with height
• High humidity is needed
• Low amounts of wind shear are needed
• Need to form more than 555 kilometres
(345 mi) or 5 degrees of latitude away from
the equator
• Needs a pre-existing system of disturbed
 Physical
structure

• Rainbands are bands of showers and

thunderstorms that spiral cyclonically
toward the storm center
• A strong tropical cyclone will harbor an
area of sinking air at the center of circulation
→ develop into an eye
• The central dense overcast is the
concentrated area of strong thunderstorm
activity near the center of a tropical cyclone
 Storm history
• The last week of April 2008 - an area of
deep convection and concern persisted near
a low-level circulation in the Bay of Bengal

• With good outflow and low wind shear,

the system slowly organized as its circulation
consolidated.

• With a ridge to its north, the system tracked

slowly north-northwestward as banding
features improved
• On April 28 - Nargis became nearly
stationary while located between
ridges to its northwest and
southeast

• The cyclone developed a

concentric eye feature

• The cyclone became disorganized

and weakened due to subsidence
and drier air
→ deep convection near the center
markedly decreased

• The storm began a motion to the

northeast around the periphery of a
ridge to its southeast
• The circulation remained strong
despite the diminishing
convection, the cyclone could
have weakened to tropical storm
status

• By late on April 29 -
convection had begun to
rebuild,though immediate
restrengthening was prevented by
increased wind shear

• On May 1 - Cyclone Nargis

began rapidly intensifying, due
to greatly improved outflow in
association
 • It developed a well-defined
eye with a diameter of 19 km

• On May 2 - Cyclone Nargis

made landfall in the
Ayeyarwady Division of
Burma

• The storm gradually

weakened over land, with its
proximity to the Andaman Sea
Satellite image of preventing rapid weakening
Nargis near landfall
 Rainfall rate
from cyclone
Nargis, as
measured by the
TRMM

Impact Of Western Bay of

Bengal
• The cyclone produced heavy rainfall
→ flooding and landslides
• Strong waves and gusty winds
• 4,500 people homeless
• More than 35,000 people were affected
• Three people were reported injured
 Impact Of Burma
( Myanmar )
• 1.5 million people were "severely affected"
• Estimates of the people still missing are
55,917
• 77,738 confirmed dead
• 2 to 3 million are homeless
• Thousands of buildings were destroyed
• the conditions in the city had degenerated
• most businesses and markets were closed
• local food prices have already been increased
Satellite images from US space agency NASA showed virtually
the entire coastal plain of the country, one of the poorest
nations on the planet, under water

NASA satellite images show before and after

Cyclone Nargis hit the Irrawady region
The cyclone, which flattened
thousands of buildings, ripped
power lines, uprooted trees on
key roads and disrupted water
supplies, came days ahead of
Saturday’s controversial
referendum on a constitution
which critics say will entrench
military rule.
Cyclone Nargis crashed into the coast
on Saturday at 120mph, destroying
entire villages and battering Rangoon

Flooded villages are seen in

this aerial view near an airport
in Yangon
With the number of dead or missing
growing by the hour a huge
humanitarian crisis is looming with
hundreds of thousands left homeless
and without drinking water

People collect
water on a street
in Yangon
The normally isolationist
dictatorship issued a rare appeal
for international assistance

Burmese soldiers unload boxes of

medicine and food supplies for
cyclone victims off a Thai military
plane
While the Red Cross has managed to distribute water
purification tablets and mosquito nets, Save the
Children estimated more than 50,000 are without
shelter in three towns in the Rangoon region alone

A flooded street in Yangon

 Reference

•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone

•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Nargis

•http://gospelherald.com.hk/news/wor_1466.htm

•http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!UokZYveeHwSW
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