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Breaking: BIGGEST HURRICANE ON RECORD - CAT 4 - IN THE ARABIAN SEA POISED TO HIT YEMEN
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Cyclone Chapala became the strongest tropical system so far south in the Arabian Sea on record
and may make an extremely rare landfall at hurricane strength along the coast of war-torn Yemen Monday or Tuesday.
While wind damage will be a threat near the point of landfall, the bigger concern will be extremely heavy rainfall in a normally arid region, leading to life-threatening flash floods in a country already suffering a major humanitarian crisis stemming from years of violent conflict.
Chapala weakened slightly to a Category 3 equivalent storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale on Sunday morning (mainland U.S. time).
It had rapidly intensified to a high-end Category 4 early Friday and remained in that Category through most of Saturday.
Satellite imagery Saturday showed a still-impressive eyewall with a tiny eye only about nine miles wide, roughly the size of Hurricane Patricia, which became the most intense hurricane of record in the western hemisphere roughly a week ago.
While direct measurements from reconnaissance aircraft are not available over the Arabian Sea,
Chapala's rate of intensification from a high-end tropical storm to a high-end Category 4 storm in 24 hours ending 2 a.m. EDT Friday morning was quite impressive for this part of the world.
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