Yemen was ravaged by Cyclone Tej on Tuesday morning.
Cyclone Tej is ravaging Yemen and could drop 20 inches of rain on the desert nation overnight—10 times the area's annual average rainfall.The cyclone made landfall Tuesday morning and has already reportedly dropped 15 inches of rain at the Al-Ghaydah airport in Yemen's Al-Mahra province. The storm has lost some of its strength as it moves inland, but rain continues to fall across much of Yemen's coast.
'They seem to get a landfall every five years or so,' Nicholls told Newsweek, adding that the most recent cyclone landfall near Yemen was in 2018. 'What's helping it this year is more of the warm water, and conditions are right for development on the Arabian Sea side this year.'Nicholls said that precipitation estimates could be inaccurate, as the dry Yemen weather can cause the storms to 'rapidly dissipate.
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