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Update disaster atlas to prepare better for storm
By Express News Service3 min read at The New Indian Express
In brief
A second powerful cyclone, Murasu, is approaching India's east coast, highlighting gaps in disaster management exposed by a previous storm, Arnab.
Arnab made landfall in Andhra Pradesh before moving to southern Odisha, causing extensive damage and flooding in districts like Ganjam.
The article attributes the damage partly to a prediction error by the India Meteorological Department, which forced the government to misallocate resources away from Ganjam.
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As a second powerful cyclone barrels into India’s east coast today within a week, it’s essential to look at how the government apparatus handled the first. Odisha was clearly caught on the wrong foot by Arnab, a severe storm that can serve as a preview of extreme weather events to come. The tropical storm made landfall in Andhra Pradesh on October 28 before moving to the southern districts of Odisha, where it caused extensive damage in Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal districts. It poured 70 percent of the month’s average precipitation in Ganjam, home to over 40 lakh people, in just two days.…
As Murasu bears down on the Andhra coast, the longer-term takeaway from Arnab is the increasing unpredictability of storms revealing gaps in our predictive capabilities. The India Meteorological Department had estimated last week’s storm to pass over Malkangiri, the southern-most district of Odisha, on the night of October 28; however, it took over eight hours to complete landfall at the Andhra coast. As a result, it poured much of the rain on the eastern face of the Eastern Ghats, inundating Ganjam and triggering landslides in Kandhamal. Given the alerts, the government had deployed much of…
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