COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s top meteorology official on Tuesday apologized for naming a deadly cyclone after a king who built massive irrigation tanks well over a millennium ago and was ...

Dangerous Tropical Cyclone Mahasen is gathering strength over the Indian Ocean's Bay of Bengal, and is a potential major threat to Bangladesh and Myanmar. The 11 am EDT Saturday advisory from the ...

It's always a nervous time when a tropical cyclone with the potential to intensify marches through the Indian Ocean's Bay of Bengal. That's because fifteen of the twenty deadliest tropical cyclones in ...

The image showed Mahasen's center was northeast of Sri Lanka, although a band of strong thunderstorms south of the storm's center were affecting the island nation at the time of the image. On Monday, ...

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM measured Cyclone Mahasen's rainfall rates from space as it made landfall on May 16. Mahasen has since dissipated over eastern India.