2018 Tropical Cyclone Sagar Path — IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC)

This layer shows the movement path of 2018 Tropical Cyclone Sagar. Cyclone Sagar made landfall in north-western Somaliland on 19 May, 2018. It was a very rare cyclone in the Gulf of Aden. The storm moved with wind gusts of up to 120 km/hour that delivered a year’s worth of rain to some areas, that is between 150 and 200mm in some parts of the north. UNICEF was among the first to respond following the powerful tropical cyclone which caused death and widespread destruction in Hargeisa, Somaliland. As per UNICEF reports, some 170,000 were affected by Cyclone Sagar which hit the coast of north-western Somaliland and Djibouti on 18 th May 2018 bringing heavy rains leading to flooding and adverse impacts. On 19 th May 2018, Cyclone Sagar made landfall in western Somaliland, impacting close to 170,000 people, mainly in Awdal region. The floods in the south and the cyclone in the north des Publisher: IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC) (via Humanitarian Data Exchange (UN OCHA)). Delivered as a cleaned, analysis-ready CSV table.

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