Massive Phailin coming towards india...

An atmospheric beast is forming in the Bay of
Bengal and heading straight for India. Cyclone
Phailin—pronounced pie-leen; it’s a Thai word
for “sapphire”—has exploded from tropical
storm strength to potentially the equivalent of a
category 5 hurricane.
Meteorologists can’t precisely determine
Phailin’s current strength because there are no
“ hurricane hunter“ aircraft taking direct
measurements of storms in the Indian Ocean
basin. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC),
a Hawaii-based forecasting outpost of the US
Navy, says Phailin is undergoing “extreme rapid
intensification.”
While strengthening, the storm has grown to
nearly half the size of India itself,
The storm’s growth, both in size and in
strength, is expected to continue until landfall.
The latest forecasts show Phailin hitting land on
Saturday near Brahmapur, India, at the strength
of a category 4 hurricane: