Tropical cyclone Thane made landfall, TC Benilde first cyclone of the 2012.

Tropical cyclone Thane made landfall, TC Benilde first cyclone of the 2012.

Tropical Cyclone Thane moved onshore over southeast India on Thursday claiming more than 40 lives. The storm made landfall near Cuddalore and had sustained winds near 70 mph with gusts to 90 mph during landfall. Thane was a strong tropical storm at landfall. Severe

Tropical cyclone Thane striking Southern India

Tropical cyclone Thane striking Southern India

Tropical Cyclone Thane slam southeastern India bringing damaging winds, flooding rain and inundating storm tides. The likely landfall will happen early Friday, local time, on the Tamil Nadu coast south of Chennai. Cities near the forecast landfall would be Puducherry