At least two people were killed in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh after severe cyclonic storm Murasu struck the coastal region Tuesday, officials said. Officials from the Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority said two people had died in incidents linked to the cyclone, which made landfall Tuesday, leaving a trail of destruction across the state. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday after two cyclones hit the state within a week.
The latest cyclone struck days after Cyclone Arnab made landfall along India’s southern coast, killing at least five people. “The CM explained the damage caused by the cyclones to the Prime Minister. He appealed to the central government to provide necessary assistance to the state, stating that significant losses had occurred across various sectors,” a statement issued by Naidu’s office said in a post on US social media platform X. Separately, Naidu said Wednesday that he had conducted an aerial survey of flood-affected areas in several districts battered by Cyclone Murasu.
He said several villages remained inundated, while roads had also been damaged by the cyclone.
Anadolu reports that Cyclone Murasu killed at least two people in Andhra Pradesh, days after Cyclone Arnab killed five, and sources its figures and damage to officials. The article never says that warming makes intense tropical cyclones like these more frequent or more severe, so a reader takes two deadly storms in a week as plain bad luck.
Leaves out the climate link
Serious
“severe cyclonic storm Murasu struck the coastal region Tuesday”
Why this matters
Anadolu reports a severe cyclone that killed at least two people, coming days after another deadly cyclone, with no word anywhere in the article on the role of warming.
The impression it gives
A reader comes away thinking two deadly cyclones in one week are a natural event with nothing to do with climate change.
The context
Human-caused warming has made intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe. The article never says so, even briefly, though it reports deaths, flooding and widespread damage from two storms in a week.
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 “warming”.
Elsewhere in the article“killing at least five people”