It ’s been a wild six calendar month for megastorms . In October 2015 , Hurricane Patricia became themost powerful ever evaluate , with nothingness top 200 mph before being downgraded near the coast of Mexico . In February 2016 , there was Winston , themost stiff cyclone recorded in the Southern Hemisphere , which made landfall on Fiji . Now meet Fantala , the strongest tempest measured over the Indian Ocean .
NASA ’s Aqua satellite captured Fantala using itsModerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer(MODIS ) as it clocked wind speeds of 170 miles per time of day on April 18 . A 2d image released by NASA show wind speeds as measure by the ISS’sRapid Scatterometer(ISS - RapidScat ) , which jounce microwaves off the ocean to shape the roughness of the body of water .
What might be to fault for these disc - setting violent storm ? Of naturally it ’s all El Niño ’s fault . El Niño meanswarm ocean temperaturesin this part of the universe , which helps sic the point for great tropical storms like this . But the supersize nature of these storm is also thanks to the11 straight track record - dampen monthsofhot temperature the major planet is live .
TC#Fantala , seen in VIIRS IR , April 18 , 2016 , from the NOAA / NASA Suomi NPP satellite.https://t.co/zglN6VRGQBpic.twitter.com/pkzcohwwp0
— NOAA Satellites ( @NOAASatellites)April 18 , 2016
As for this a la mode tempest , we got lucky : Although Fantala was churning near the glide of Madagascar , it never made landfall . But with temperatures continuing to climb and El Niñonot quite over yet , there will belike be more of these mammoth storms in the near future .
[ NASA ]
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