PATUAKHALI: Bangladeshi weather experts said on Tuesday that a deadly cyclone that carved a swathe of destruction was one of the quickest-forming and longest-lasting they'd experienced, blaming climate change for the shift.and neighbouring India on Sunday evening with fierce gales and crashing waves, left at least 21 people dead, destroyed thousands of homes, smashed seawalls and flooded cities across the two countries.
He said the cyclone formed more quickly than almost all the cyclones they have monitored in recent decades. "It took three days for it to turn into a severe cyclone from low pressure in the Bay of Bengal ... I've never seen a cyclone formed from a low pressure in such a quick time," he said. In Bangladesh, Cyclone Remal killed at least 15 people, including 12 reported by Kamrul Hasan, the country's disaster management secretary.