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Contribution of butterfly to cyclone Titli

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  How in god’s name is that possible? How can something comparatively as irrelevant as a butterfly have any impact on something as big as a cyclone, that too “very severe cyclonic storm(VSCS)” as  categorized in IMD cyclone category scale. Now, a person privy to chaos theory would say it’s  possible. Not certainly probable, but not impossible either.   Before we get started, I’ll talk a little more about cyclone Titli. VSCS Titli was a tropical cyclone  that was deadly and destructive, it caused a huge loss and damage to Eastern India. Titli was the  fifth named storm to form in the North Indian ocean in 2018. It originated as a low pressure system on October 7 in Andaman sea, with IMD estimated peak winds of 150 Km/h on late October 10 just hours before landfall. Titli made landfall over the eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, and weakened as it moved northeastward towards Odisha. By October 12, it got degenerate enough to die out.  ...