A large and growing brown cloud of persistent air pollution hovering over northern India and surrounding regions has doubled — and occasionally tripled — the intensity of late spring cyclones in the Arabian Sea during the past three decades.
Cyclone Gonu, seen over the Arabian Sea on June 4, 2007, produced Category 5 winds before hitting Oman and Iran.
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