Cyclone Mocha Now Among Strongest Storms on Record: Weather Watch
Here’s what’s on Bloomberg Green’s weather radar today.
Broken boats after cyclone Mocha made a landfall in Sittwe, Myanmar's Rakhine state, on May 15.
Photographer: Sai Aung Main/AFP/Getty Images
The remnants of Tropical Cyclone Mocha have moved further inland over Myanmar after coming ashore Sunday with winds of 155 miles per hour on the US wind scale. At its peak the winds reached 175 mph, tying it with 2019's Tropical Cyclone Fani as the strongest storm recorded in the North Indian Ocean, Jeff Masters, a meteorologist at Yale Climate Connections said in a post.
“Mocha is Earth's fourth Cat 5 storms of 2023, joining three Southern Hemisphere storms from earlier in the year,” Masters wrote. Those were: Isla, which hit northwest Australia in April, Freddy, which peaked at Category 5 strength east of Madagascar in February and Kevin, which reached the dangerous designation in March southeast of Vanuatu in the South Pacific.