Burma: Another cyclone coming?

Via The Irrawaddy: UN says Another Cyclone Forming near Burma. Excerpt:

A second cyclone was forming Wednesday near Burma, less than two weeks after the country was devastated by a killer storm, according to the UN's World Meteorological Center.

The UN's weather center is tracking a nascent tropical storm that is likely to become a cyclone, said Amanda Pitt, the spokeswoman of the world body's humanitarian relief program, in Bangkok, Thailand.

"This is terrible," she told reporters, adding that it could further jeopardize the people who survived Cyclone Nargis on May 3 and the efforts to distribute aid to them.

She couldn't say when or where the cyclone would make a landfall, or when it would become a full-fledged cyclone, which is being monitored by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, a part of the UN's World Meteorological Center.

The center said on its Web site that "the potential for the development of a significant tropical cyclone within the next 24 hours is good."

It said, “the circulation center (of the storm) is currently transiting generally northwestward across the Yangon [Rangoon] delta region of Myanmar [Burma],” which refers to the Irrawaddy delta.

The same area was pulverized by Cyclone Nargis on May 2-3, leaving more than 60,000 people dead or missing.