Is it sheer chance or by design, that another cyclonic storm appeared on our coordinate for devastation and furry just after one year (Phailin like disaster looming large) on 13/14 night and affecting the day after.
Are these repeated disasters signal something which we ought to unlock, comprehend, take measures corrective in our capacity to repair damaged ecological losses made in our civilization pressures !!
Hudhud, the strongest tropical cyclone of 2014 within the North Indian Ocean, which passed this early night from our coordinates (Ambikapur, 13/14 night of October 2014) in India, under whose influence of an upper air cyclonic circulation, a low pressure area formed led to storm with peak intensity, uprooted trees, devastated communication and power transmission lines with rapid rain showers.
But life moves on, soon after the wind is gone, cleaning debris from around, gathering broken twigs of tree branches to harness fuel and fodder so that energy could be harnessed to mobilize the life once again.
Such is the life !!
And following are the pictures which I tried to gather from in around me (http://throughpicture.blogspot.in/2013/08/call-from-misty-mystical-mountain.html) showing beats of life in various forms coming to normalcy with the beauty of the trail left by cyclone.
#all pictures taken on the day of 14th October 2014, Tuesday
The blizzard was partly a product of the cyclone's counter-clockwise circulation, which pushed copious amounts of moisture up against the wall of mountains in Nepal and northern India.
The winds around the cyclone temporarily directed a firehose of moisture from the warm waters of the Indian Ocean north-northwestward toward the Himalayas — some of the world's tallest mountain peaks with elevations above 20,000 feet — at the time when elite mountaineers were trying to reach the summit of mountains such as K2 and Mount Everest.
The snowfall, which was measured in feet, not inches, occurred as the mountains were sideswiped by the tail of the dying cyclone. Snowfall totals topped 6 feet in some places, according to multiple reports. The mountains acted like a sponge, squeezing out moisture as it was lifted up and over them, in a process known as orographic lift.
It is the worst disaster in the history of Nepal's mountain-climbing industry, a major contributor to the country's economy.
http://mashable.com/2014/10/16/india-cyclone-hudhud-nepal/
Are these repeated disasters signal something which we ought to unlock, comprehend, take measures corrective in our capacity to repair damaged ecological losses made in our civilization pressures !!
Hudhud, the strongest tropical cyclone of 2014 within the North Indian Ocean, which passed this early night from our coordinates (Ambikapur, 13/14 night of October 2014) in India, under whose influence of an upper air cyclonic circulation, a low pressure area formed led to storm with peak intensity, uprooted trees, devastated communication and power transmission lines with rapid rain showers.
But life moves on, soon after the wind is gone, cleaning debris from around, gathering broken twigs of tree branches to harness fuel and fodder so that energy could be harnessed to mobilize the life once again.
Such is the life !!
And following are the pictures which I tried to gather from in around me (http://throughpicture.blogspot.in/2013/08/call-from-misty-mystical-mountain.html) showing beats of life in various forms coming to normalcy with the beauty of the trail left by cyclone.
#all pictures taken on the day of 14th October 2014, Tuesday
#The blizzard, the tail end of a cyclone that hit the Indian coast a few
days earlier, appeared to contribute to an avalanche Wednesday (15th October) that
killed 27 in Nepal !!
As per the news reports and Meteorological data, the blizzard struck Nepal on Tuesday on the Annapurna circuit, a popular
hiking route that is not as demanding as the Mount Everest trek. As a
result, many of the climbers may not have been the elite mountaineers,
who have more experience in challenging conditions. So far, 27 people,
including many foreigners, are confirmed dead, with at least 70 people
still missing. The death toll is expected to rise.The blizzard was partly a product of the cyclone's counter-clockwise circulation, which pushed copious amounts of moisture up against the wall of mountains in Nepal and northern India.
The winds around the cyclone temporarily directed a firehose of moisture from the warm waters of the Indian Ocean north-northwestward toward the Himalayas — some of the world's tallest mountain peaks with elevations above 20,000 feet — at the time when elite mountaineers were trying to reach the summit of mountains such as K2 and Mount Everest.
The snowfall, which was measured in feet, not inches, occurred as the mountains were sideswiped by the tail of the dying cyclone. Snowfall totals topped 6 feet in some places, according to multiple reports. The mountains acted like a sponge, squeezing out moisture as it was lifted up and over them, in a process known as orographic lift.
It is the worst disaster in the history of Nepal's mountain-climbing industry, a major contributor to the country's economy.
http://mashable.com/2014/10/16/india-cyclone-hudhud-nepal/
#Number of missing in Nepal after cyclone Hudhud is high as 85(Wikimedia)
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| 17,770-foot Thorong La Pass, Nepal. Where 12 hikers died in a snowstorm. |
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| imd.gov.in |
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| Storm track of Cyclone Hudhud and precipitation potential as seen by a NASA satellite |
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| Seven-day precipitation totals, showing the heavy precipitation in the Himalayas |
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