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Nature Geoscience 1, 488–490 (1 August 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo257

Myanmar's deadly daffodil

Peter J. Webster

On 2 May 2008, a “very severe tropical cyclone” crossed over southern Myanmar with winds in excess of 65 ms|[minus]|1 (135 mph), similar in intensity to Hurricane Katrina when it struck the US Gulf Coast in August 2005. Cyclone Nargis (Urdu for 'daffodil') moved eastwards along Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta (Fig.