Cyclone Murasu made landfall ​along India's eastern coast, the second storm to hit the region in a week as authorities evacuated thousands of people to safety

Cyclone Murasu made landfall along India's eastern coast, the country's weather department said, the second storm to hit the region in a week as authorities evacuated thousands of people to safety

Tropical cyclones need the Coriolis effect to rotate. Near the equator that force is too weak, so storms almost never form there, and none have ever crossed it. 70 years of data make it clear.

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STORY | Cyclone Arnab: Two electrocuted in separate incidents in Andhra Two people, including a 55-year-old woman, died of electrocution in separate incidents in Andhra Pradesh during Cyclone Arnab, officials said on Wednesday. A senior district official said a 53-year-old man died on Tuesday night after coming into contact with a live wire that snapped over an agricultural field channel. In the second incident, a woman died after accidentally stepping on an exposed live wire outside her home in Yellamanchili town in Anakapalli district on Wednesday morning, police said.