Category 5 Cyclone Mocha set to crash over Myanmar, Bangladesh
Local residents arrive to take shelter at a monastery in Sittwe town in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on Friday, ahead of Cyclone Mocha’s expected landfall over Myanmar and Bangladesh at around noon today. – AFP pic, May 13, 2023.
CYCLONE Mocha intensified into a category five hurricane today, hours ahead of its predicted landfall in Myanmar and Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from the coasts were taking shelter. Mocha was packing winds of up to 259kph, the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center said, the equivalent to a category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
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