Arabian Sea News

Update: Cyclone Luban Hits Yemen, Injuring Dozens, Destroying Property

A tropical storm has battered eastern Yemen, with three days of heavy rainfall and flooding injuring dozens of people, destroying property and killing livestock, Yemeni officials and the United Nations said Tuesday. They said that around 70 percent of the …

Update: Tropical Cyclone Luban in Arabian Sea Could Threaten Oman, Yemen

Tropical Cyclone Luban has strengthened in the Arabian Sea to the equivalent of a Category 1 hurricane, according to Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Weather Underground, quoting the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The tropical cyclone is expected to weaken to a …

Steamship Services Publishes Revised War and Piracy Area Warnings

Following a review by Steamship Services Joint War Committee, the War Breach areas have been revised and amended. War and Piracy warnings have been amended for the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman and the Southern …

UPDATE: Chapala Threatens Yemen with Flooding, High Winds: AccuWeather

The AccuWeather Global Weather Center has reported that “Yemen is bracing for impacts from a small, but currently powerful Tropical Cyclone Chapala in the Arabian Sea.” The storm, whose intensity was at one point equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane …

Unusually Strong Cyclone Chapala Nearing Oman, Yemen: AccuWeather

The AccuWeather Global Weather Center has issued a report on Tropical Cyclone Chapala, which is currently gaining strength and approaching Yemen and Oman in the Arabian Sea. The two countries are “bracing for impacts,” as the storm is currently packing …