Stormy Weather

[Article] Dean’s hitting the Caribbean and Sepat’s making a landfall appearance in China. No, these aren’t new pop stars, but deadly tropical storms. If you’ve ever asked yourself what difference there was between a typhoon, a hurricane and a cyclone, and how they get their names, look no further.


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Hurricane Dean has already claimed nine casualties, battered Jamaica, and is now heading for Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, while Sepat has taken 15 lives in the Pacific and forced the evacuation of 900,000 people. There’s nothing amusing about tropical storms when you see the amount of damage...
This article was published Tuesday, 21 August, 2007 by AFP
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