NGC's Naked Earth: Cyclone devastates Myanmar

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NGC's Naked Earth: Cyclone devastates Myanmar

#1 Postby HURAKAN » Sat May 24, 2008 1:01 pm

Very interesting show.

It's being show right now, 2 PM ET.
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#2 Postby HURAKAN » Sat May 24, 2008 1:15 pm

As always with these shows, they've their errors. They said that in the South Atlantic cyclones are called hurricanes. Also they mixed the IDM's cyclone scale with the Saffir-Simpson scale. They started with depression, deep depression, cyclonic storm, and then changed to categories from 1-5.
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