evidence: According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the agency sanctioned by the World Meteorological Organization for issuing official tropical cyclone bulletins for the Arabian Sea, Cyclone Megh was a strong Category 2 or Category 3 on Nov. 8 near the time it made a direct hit on the main island of Socotra, about 150 miles east of the Horn of Africa in the central Arabian Sea that is a part of Yemen. The U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) classified Megh as a Category 3 equivalent near the time it hit Socotra. [...] After making a direct hit on Socotra and then brushing northeast Somalia, satellite imagery showed that Megh became less organized due to land interaction, dry air and cooler sea-surface temperatures. The IMD and JTWC classified Megh as a tropical storm as it moved into mainland Yemen just northeast of Aden on Nov. 10.