The World Meteorological Organisation has officially recognised the 1970 cyclone that killed 300,000 people in the southern region of East Pakistan — now Bangladesh — as the deadliest weather event ever. “I have often heard since 2005 that Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest tropical cyclone or hurricane to have ever occurred.”But Katrina killed more than 2,000 people and “pales in comparison” to the 1970 cyclone in Bangladesh, he said. Bangladesh has endured four cyclones that killed 100,000 or more people, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department. By comparison, the US’s deadliest hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas, in 1900, killing 8,000 people. The full report appeared in the journal Weather, Climate and Society, a publication of the American Meteorological Society

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 18, 2017 12:33 UTC