Overview
- Authorities and satellite images show extensive flooding from Sri Lanka to Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam after a trio of storms drenched the region.
- Sri Lanka reports 366 dead and 367 missing with more than 180,000 people in government shelters as relief operations scale up in flooded districts of Colombo and beyond.
- Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health says at least 170 people have died in some of the country’s worst flooding in a decade, with Hat Yai recording over a month’s rain in a day.
- IMD confirms Senyar as the first cyclone recorded in the Malacca Strait in 135 years and says improved monitoring enabled an early November 13 forecast.
- Senyar remained a weak system near 35 knots and dissipated by Dec 1, yet interactions with stronger Typhoon Koto and concurrent storms sustained heavy rain and triggered landslides.