South Asian Nation: Cyclone Mahasen

Cyclone Mahasen: The storm hit the coast of the South Asian nation late Thursday morning, but caused far less damage than had been feared, according to CBC. Meteorological official Mohammad Shah Alam said Mahasen had weakened to a tropical storm before it made landfall. The storm also appeared to have spared Burma and northeast India and Cyclone Mahasen weakened significantly as it passed over Bangladesh Thursday, missing major population centres, meteorological officials said. Still, when the outer bands of the storm struck the southern coast, remote fishing villages were lashed with heavy rain and fierce winds that flattened mud and straw huts and forced the evacuation of more than one million people. Read about the birth of tropical storms and how they are forecast (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.