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Rare Cyclone Heads for Arabia

Chapala is predicted to make landfall in Oman or Yemen, with the potential to bring several years’ worth of rain in a matter of days.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Rare Cyclone Heads for Arabia.

NASA imagery by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response using Suomi NPP and MODIS data. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published October 31, 2015
Data acquired October 29, 2015