Severe cyclonic storm Murasu has left a trail of destruction in coastal Andhra Pradesh in southern India, after making landfall early Tuesday. It comes days after Cyclone Arnab made landfall along India's southern coast, leaving five people dead. The cyclone wreaked havoc in the coastal state, uprooting thousands of trees, damaging hundreds of electric poles, and wrecking fishing boats, Press Trust of India reported. In an update, the Met Department said the landfall of severe Cyclonic Storm Murasu began over south coastal Andhra Pradesh at 1 am local time (1930GMT Monday).
“The landfall process continues. In the forward sector of the cyclone, part of a wall cloud entered into land and the eye is touching the coast. Severe Cyclonic Storm Murasu over West central Bay of Bengal close to South Andhra Pradesh coast,” the weather department wrote on the US social media platform X. The landfall brought heavy rainfall accompanied by winds reaching speeds of up to 110 kilometers (68 miles) per hour. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu directed officials to prepare for the cyclone.
He said estimates suggest that due to the impact of the cyclone, 6,000 to 8,000 electricity poles may be damaged, posing a “severe threat to power supply.” In neighboring Odisha state, authorities shifted 151,434 people to safe places as the government stepped up preparedness measures in vulnerable areas to mitigate the potential impact of the cyclone.
Anadolu Agency reports the landfall and damage of Cyclone Murasu in Andhra Pradesh, days after Cyclone Arnab killed five people, using figures from the weather department, the state's chief minister and Press Trust of India. The article never says that warming makes intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe, so a reader gets two severe storms in a week with no word on what is making such storms worse.
Leaves out the climate link
Serious
“uprooting thousands of trees, damaging hundreds of electric poles, and wrecking fishing boats”
Why this matters
Anadolu lists the damage from Cyclone Murasu, the second severe storm to hit this coast in a week, and gives no word anywhere in the article on climate change or warming.
The impression it gives
A reader takes back to back severe cyclones on India's east coast as weather that simply happens, with nothing making them worse.
The context
The documented record shows that human caused warming has made intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe. The article says nothing of this, even as it reports a second severe storm days after Cyclone Arnab killed five people.
How we know
On the recordThat warming has made hot extremes, heavy rainfall, agricultural and ecological drought, fire weather and intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “climate”, “warming” and “climate change”.
Elsewhere in the article“It comes days after Cyclone Arnab made landfall”