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The 2002 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was a below active season in terms of tropical cyclone formation. The season had no official bounds, but most storms formed in either May or after October. No depressions or storms formed during the monsoon season from July to September, the first such instance on record. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean – the Bay of Bengal to the east of the Indian subcontinent – and the Arabian Sea to the west of India. The official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) releases unofficial advisories. An average of four to six storms form in the North Indian Ocean every season with peaks in May and November. Cyclones occurring between the meridians 45°E and 100°E are included in the season by the IMD. Overall, there was a total of seven depressions and four cyclonic storms. The most intense and deadly tropical cyclone of the season, the West Bengal cyclone, lashed that province of India and Bangladesh in the month of November. Rough seas offshore caused at least 173 drownings offshore Bangladesh and India, while over 100 people were left missing. In West Bengal alone, 124 fatalities were reported, with over one hundred people still missing. Flooding occurred there and some areas of Bangladesh, particularly the capital city of Dhaka. Another notable storm was the Oman cyclone in May. It made a rare landfall in the Omani region of Dhofar. The storm brought historic rainfall to Oman, which in turn brought flooding to the region. Nine people drowned and damage to property, crops, and transportation reached $25 million (2002 USD). ==Season summary== ImageSize = width:800 height:220 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:80 right:20 left:20 Legend = columns:3 left:30 top:58 columnwidth:270 AlignBars = early DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/05/2002 till:31/12/2002 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMinor = grid:black unit:month increment:1 start:01/05/2002 Colors = id:canvas value:gray(0.88) id:GP value:red id:TD value:rgb(0.38,0.73,1) legend:Depression/Deep_Depression id:TS value:rgb(0,0.98,0.96) legend:Cyclonic_Storm id:ST value:rgb(0.80,1,1) legend:Severe_Cyclonic_Storm id:VS value:rgb(1,0.76,0.25) legend:Very_Severe_Cyclonic_Storm id:ES value:rgb(1,0.56,0.13) legend:Extremely_Severe_Cyclonic_Storm id:SU value:rgb(1,0.38,0.38) legend:Super_Cyclonic_Storm Backgroundcolors = canvas:canvas BarData = barset:Hurricane bar:Month PlotData= barset:Hurricane width:10 align:left fontsize:S shift:(4,-4) anchor:till from:06/05/2002 till:10/05/2002 color:TS text:"ARB 01 (CS)" from:10/05/2002 till:12/05/2002 color:TD text:"BOB 02 (DD)" from:17/05/2002 till:19/05/2002 color:TD text:"Unnumbered (D)" from:22/10/2002 till:25/10/2002 color:TD text:"BOB 03" from:10/11/2002 till:12/11/2002 color:ST text:"BOB 04 (SCS)" from:23/11/2002 till:28/11/2002 color:TS text:"BOB 05 (CS)" from:22/12/2002 till:25/12/2002 color:TS text:"BOB 06 (CS)" bar:Month width:5 align:center fontsize:S shift:(0,-20) anchor:middle color:canvas from:01/05/2002 till:01/06/2002 text:May from:01/06/2002 till:01/07/2002 text:June from:01/07/2002 till:01/08/2002 text:July from:01/08/2002 till:01/09/2002 text:August from:01/09/2002 till:01/10/2002 text:September from:01/10/2002 till:01/11/2002 text:October from:01/11/2002 till:01/12/2002 text:November from:01/12/2002 till:31/12/2002 text:December Overall, the season was inactive in terms of tropical cyclone formation. The IMD tracked six tropical cyclones, which was below the average of 13 to 14 per season.〔 No storms were active from June to September during the monsoon season,〔 the first such instance of no depressions in the 115 year record of the IMD. Collectively, the storms of this season resulted in at least 182 deaths and $25 million (2002 USD) in damage, all of which can be attributed to ARB 01 and BOB 04.〔〔 The first storm of the season, ARB 01, developed on May 6 out of an area of low pressure over the Arabian Sea. It peaked winds of 65 km/h (40 mph) before making landfall near Salalah, Oman on May 10. The storm dissipated shortly thereafter.〔 A deep depression, classified as BOB 02, developed in the Andaman Sea on May 10. The deep depression remained disorganized and made landfall near Yangon, Burma before dissipating on May 12.〔 Later that month, an tropical depression, recognized only by the Thailand Meteorological Department, developed in the Bay of Bengal and also made landfall in Burma.〔 Activity in the North Indian Ocean then went dormant for over five months, a direct result of the monsoon season in the region.〔 Tropical cyclogenesis resumed with the development of Tropical Depression BOB 03 forming near Andhra Pradesh on October 22.〔 On November 11, a severe cyclonic storm – numbered BOB 04 – developed in the Bay of Bengal. It soon became the strongest tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 100 km/h (65 mph) and a minimum barometric pressure of . BOB 04 made landfall in Bangladesh on November 12, hours before dissipating. Later in November, another cyclonic storm – assigned to BOB 05 – formed in the Bay of Bengal on November 23. It moved northward before eventually curving westward and dissipating on November 28.〔 The final tropical cyclone developed southwest of Sri Lanka on December 21. The system headed generally east-northeastward and strengthened into cyclonic storm on December 24, before demising well east of Sri Lanka on the following day.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2002 North Indian Ocean cyclone season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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