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Hurricane Megan, known as Super Hurricane Меган which devastated the Custa De Luna Islands, was the most intense tropical cyclones on record, which devastated portions of Southeast Islands, particularly Da Luna Islands, on October 24, 2016. It is the deadliest Super Hurricane on record, killing at least 500,000 people in that country alone. Megan is also the strongest storm ever recorded at landfall with max wind speeds of 295mph (475kmp) with gusts above 300mph in the eye wall. Even days after the storm, more than 30,000 bodies have been recovered by the NDRU.

The thirtieth named storm of the 2016 Eastern Hurricane season, Megan originated from an area of low pressure several hundred kilometers east-southeast of Verona islands in the Federated States of St. Barbarossa Islands on October 21, 2016. Tracking generally westward, environmental conditions favored a hurricane cyclogenesis and the system developed into a tropical depression hours later. After becoming a tropical storm and attaining the name Megan at 9:00am on October 22, 2016 the system began a period of rapid intensification that brought it to Super Hurricane intensity by 1:00pm UTC on October 22. By October 23, 2016, the Joint Super Hurricane Warning Center (JSHWC) assessed the system as a Category 8-equivalent super Hurricane on the Charles Simpson hurricane wind scale; the storm passed over the island of Verona in shortly after attaining this strength.

Thereafter, it continued to intensify; at 6:00pm UTC on October 23, the Eastern Meteorological Agency (EMA) upgraded the storm's maximum ten-minute sustained winds to 200 km/h (230 mph), the highest in relation to the cyclone. The Southern Island Observatory put the storm's maximum ten-minute sustained winds at 415 km/h (260 mph) prior to landfall in the Southern Islands of De Luna, while the Eastern Meteorological Administration estimated the maximum two-minute sustained winds at the time to be around (455 km/h or 280 mph). At the same time, the JSHWC estimated the system's one-minute sustained winds to 475 km/h (295mph), officially making Megan the strongest tropical cyclone ever observed based on wind speed, a record which could stand for many decades to came. It's also the strongest Super Hurricane in the Eastern Hemisphere.

On October 21, 2016 the Joint Super Hurricane Warning Center (JSHWC) began monitoring a broad low-pressure area about 425 kilometers (265 miles) east-southeast of the Karamja Isands, one of the states in the Federated States of Custa De Luna. Moving through a region favoring tropical cyclogenesis, the Eastern Meteorological Agency (EMA) classified the developing system as a tropical depression early on October 21. Subsequent intensification resulted in the EMA upgrading the system to a tropical storm and assigning it the name Megan at 9:00am on October 22. Tracking generally westward along the southern periphery of a subtropical ridge, rapid intensification ensued on the same day, October 22, 2016 as a central dense overcast with an embedded eye began developing; the EMA classified Megan as a Hurricane later that day. By October 23, the Luna Islands Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (LAGAA) assigned the storm the local name Меган as it approached their area of responsibility. Intensification was growing during the day, the EMA estimated the storm to have attained Category 10-equivalent super Super Hurricane status on the Charles Simpson hurricane wind scale around 10:00am on October 24, 2016. Later around 2:35pm the eye of the Super Hurricane passed over the island of Isla Nublar which was the hardest hit area where nearly 500,000 lives were lost.

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