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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why wasn't it recognised as a cyclone? Was it spinning backwards?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

As a hurricane, not as a cyclone. There's a minimum intensity necessary to get classified as a hurricane.

(I've written cyclone by mistake, and changed the comment. You may be reading an older version of it.)