The cyclone season in the North Indian 2014 has no official limits as is usual in other basins, but runs all year round. The tropical cyclones usually form in this basin between April and December, with the months before and after the monsoon season , i.e. April / May and October / November, being the most active. A tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean is known as a cyclone .
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) in Honolulu issues separate warnings and forecasts for the US facilities in the Indian Ocean. The JTWC classifies according to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale , while the RSMC uses its own criteria for the classification, which are based, among other things, on the measurement of the continuous wind speed on the basis of a three-minute observation.
Early on January 4, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) reported the formation of a depression over the southwestern Gulf of Bengal , about 250 km east of Trincomalee , Sri Lanka . At the same time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) began monitoring the system and named it 01B . On the evening of the same day, the depression moved very slowly west-northwest and was now about 150 km east-northeast of Trincomalee. Even early on January 5th, the system could not intensify significantly and remained in the state of depression. 24 hours later, she went ashore near Mullaitivu , Sri Lanka. On the morning of January 7th, the India Meteorological Department issued the final warning.
On the morning of May 21, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) began observing a depression located approximately 490 km north-northwest of Port Blair , India and 620 km west-southwest of Rangoon , Myanmar . The final warning about the system was issued just two days later when it was being analyzed over the central Bay of Bengal .
In the early morning of June 10, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) reported that a tropical storm called 02A had formed about 600 km southwest of Mumbai , India over the Arabian Sea . Later in the day, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) also began observing the system and upgraded it to a depression. It moved northwest and deepened into a deep depression that evening. On the night of June 11th, the India Meteorological Department realized that the low pressure area had reached storm force and therefore upgraded it to a cyclonic storm, which was named Nanauk .
On the morning of October 7, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) reported that a depression had formed over the northern Andaman Sea , about 250 km east-southeast of Long Island . A few hours later, the system intensified into a deep depression as it moved in a west-northwest direction.
Hudhud reached the mainland near the city of Visakhapatnam with sustained winds of around 175 km / h and then moved north.
The effects of the storm killed at least 66 people in India : 46 in Andhra Pradesh , 2 in Odisha and 18 in Uttar Pradesh . In addition , at least 43 people were killed in a snow storm in Nepal , which is likely to be related to the cyclone.
Early in the morning of October 25, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) began observing a depression located about 940 km east-southeast of Salalah , Oman, over the central Arabian Sea . Later that day, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) upgraded the system to a tropical storm, which was then given the 04A identification .